Parker Glacier
| Parker Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Mountaineer Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 47 ′ S , 165 ° 33 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Lady Newnes Bay , Ross Sea | |
The Parker Glacier is a valley glacier in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . It flows in the Mountaineer Range from the area east and northeast of Mount Monteagle in a southerly direction to Lady Newnes Bay , where it ends in the form of a floating glacier tongue .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and with the help of aerial photographs of the United States Navy between 1960 and 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1969 after Anthony GH Parker, a biologist at Hallett Station from 1963 to 1964 and on the McMurdo station between 1964 and 1965 and from 1966 to 1967.
Web links
- Parker Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Parker Glacier on geographic.org