Polarårboken Glacier
| Polarårboken Glacier | ||
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| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 36 ′ S , 76 ° 0 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Publications Ice Shelf | |
The Polarårboken Glacier is a glacier on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of Princess Elisabeth Land in East Antarctica . It flows in a westerly direction into the northern part of the Publications Ice Shelf , which it reaches 5 km northeast of the Steinane archipelago .
The American cartographer John Hobbie Roscoe (1919-2007) mapped it using aerial photographs of Operation Highjump (1946-1947). Roscoe named the glacier after the magazine Polarårboken (Norwegian for polar yearbook ) of the Norsk Polarklubb in Oslo , Norway .
Web links
- Polarårboken Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Polarårboken Glacier on geographic.org (English)