Parks glacier
| Parks glacier | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Executive Committee Range | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 7 ′ S , 125 ° 55 ′ W | |
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The Parks Glacier is a glacier in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . In the Executive Committee Range, it flows from the Weiss Amphitheater , a caldera in the southern part of Mount Sidley , in a south-easterly direction.
The United States Geological Survey mapped him in 1959 while exploring the Executive Committee Range. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1962 after the American geophysicist and seismologist Perry E. Parks Jr., who had participated in the 1959-1960 crossing of Marie Byrd Land by land.
Web links
- Parks Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Parks Glacier on geographic.org (English)