Perkins Glacier
| Perkins Glacier | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | McDonald Heights | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 54 ′ S , 136 ° 37 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Hull Bay | |
The Perkins Glacier is a wide glacier with a slight gradient on the Ruppert coast of the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . From the McDonald Heights it flows in a westerly direction and flows 13 km south-southeast of Cape Burk into Hull Bay .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1974 after Earle Bryant Perkins (1901–1986), biologist on the second Antarctic expedition (1933–1935) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd .
Web links
- Perkins Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Perkins Glacier on geographic.org (English)