Pelter glacier
| Pelter glacier | ||
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| location | Thurston Island , West Antarctica | |
| length | 8 kilometers | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ S , 98 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Murphy Inlet | |
The Pelter Glacier is an approximately 8 km long glacier on Thurston Island off the Eights coast of the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It flows on the east side of the Noville Peninsula into the western section of Murphy Inlet .
Its position was determined from aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy VX-6 squadron in January 1960. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in the same year after Joseph Arnold Pelter (1908-1969), aerial photographer on the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd .
Web links
- Pelter Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pelter Glacier on geographic.org (English)