Perez glacier
| Perez glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 15 km | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 6 ′ S , 177 ° 0 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Ross Ice Shelf | |
The Perez Glacier is a 15 km long glacier on the Dufek coast in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It flows from Mount Brennan in the Hughes Range in a north-easterly direction to the Ross Ice Shelf , which it reaches east of the Giovinco Piedmont Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Richard Perez of the United States Navy , who was a member of the VX-6 flight squadron in Operation Deep Freeze in 1964 and who wintered at McMurdo Station in 1961.
Web links
- Perez Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Perez Glacier on geographic.org (English)