Peterson Glacier
| Peterson Glacier | ||
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| location | Wilkesland , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 25 ′ S , 110 ° 44 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Penney Bay | |
The Peterson Glacier is a glacier on the Budd Coast of Wilkesland, East Antarctica . It flows in a westerly direction and flows into Penney Bay across from Herring Island .
The American cartographer Gardner Dean Blodgett (* 1925) mapped it in 1955 using aerial photographs of the American Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the glacier in the same year after Louie N. Peterson, radio operator and recorder in the US Operation Windmill (1947-1948) for the establishment of astronomical observation stations along the Kaiser Wilhelm II coast , the Knox - and the Budd Coast from January to February 1948.
Web links
- Peterson Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Peterson Glacier on geographic.org (English)