Pitkevitch Glacier

Pitkevitch Glacier
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location	Viktorialand , Antarctica
Mountains	Admiralty Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
length	32 km
Coordinates	71 ° 23 ′ S , 168 ° 52 ′ E Coordinates: 71 ° 23 ′ S , 168 ° 52 ′ E
drainage	Anderson Icefalls and Fendley Glacier

The Pitkevitch Glacier is a 32 km long glacier on the Pennell coast of East Antarctica Victoria Land . It flows north in the Admiralty Mountains along the western flank of the DuBridge Range and reaches the Somow Sea immediately east of the Atkinson Cliffs , where it merges into the Anderson Icefalls . Part of the lower section of the glacier flows northwest towards the Fendley Glacier .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it using geodetic surveys and aerial photographs from the United States Navy from 1960 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the glacier in 1964 after United States Air Force officer Leonard M. Pitkevitch , who died on Jan. October 1958 together with five other crew members in the crash of a Douglas C-124 Globemaster II at Cape Roget as part of an Operation Deep Freeze .

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