Polar Times Glacier
| Polar Times Glacier | ||
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| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 46 ′ S , 74 ° 35 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Publications Ice Shelf | |
The Polar Times Glacier is a glacier on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of Princess Elisabeth Land in East Antarctica . It flows in a northerly direction between Svarthausen and Boyd Nunatak in the western section of the Publications Ice Shelf .
The American cartographer John Hobbie Roscoe (1919-2007) mapped it using aerial photographs of Operation Highjump (1946-1947). Roscoe named the glacier after The Polar Times magazine published by the American Polar Society in New York .
Web links
- Polar Times Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Polar Times Glacier on geographic.org (English)