Paschal glacier
| Paschal glacier | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| length | 30 km | |
| width | ⌀ 6 km | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 54 ′ S , 140 ° 40 ′ W | |
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| drainage | White glaciers and land glaciers | |
The Paschal Glacier is a 30 km long and 6 km wide glacier on the Ruppert coast in the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . It flows in a north-westerly direction between two mountain ridges, the northern reaches of which are Mount McCoy and Lewis Bluff . At its lower end it joins the White Glacier and the Land Glacier before the latter joins Land Bay .
The first aerial photographs were taken during the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941). The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1965. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1972 after Evans W. Paschal, scientific director of the Byrd Station in 1970.
Web links
- Paschal Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Paschal Glacier on geographic.org (English)