Pearl Harbor Glacier
| Pearl Harbor Glacier | ||
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 PEARL HARBOR GLACIER in the northwest area of the map sheet |
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| location | Viktorialand , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Victory Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 15 ′ S , 167 ° 40 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Tucker Glacier | |
The Pearl Harbor Glacier is a large glacier in the Victory Mountains of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows in an easterly direction and flows 27 km northwest of Bypass Hill into the southwest flank of the Tucker Glacier .
Participants in a New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition campaign carried out from 1957 to 1958 named it in memory of the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the trigger for the United States' entry into World War II .
Web links
- Pearl Harbor Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pearl Harbor Glacier on geographic.org (English)