Peckham Glacier
| Peckham Glacier | ||
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| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 21 ′ S , 157 ° 25 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Byrd glacier | |
The Peckham Glacier is a steep side glacier of the Byrd Glacier in the Britannia Range of the Transantarctic Mountains . It flows south from Mount McClintock .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1965 after the American biologist Verne E. Peckham, who, as a member of the team at McMurdo Station , had undertaken several dives in McMurdo Sound near the station and not far from Cape Evans in the winter of 1962 .
Web links
- Peckham Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Peckham Glacier on geographic.org (English)