Payne Glacier
| Payne Glacier | ||
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| location | Thurston Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 55 ′ S , 96 ° 42 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Bellingshausen lake | |
The Payne Glacier is a glacier on Thurston Island off the Eights coast of West Antarctica Ellsworthland . It flows in the north of the Evans Peninsula to the Bellingshausen Sea , which it reaches east of Cape Walden .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2003 after J. B. Payne, a crew member of aircraft in Operation Highjump (1946–1947) carried out by the United States Navy to create aerial photographs of Thurston Island and the neighboring mainland coast.
Web links
- Payne Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Payne Glacier on geographic.org (English)