Potter Glacier
| Potter Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 20 km | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 23 ′ S , 162 ° 12 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Skelton Glacier | |
The Potter Glacier is a 20 km long glacier in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . It flows between Mount Huggins and Mount Kempe in a south-westerly direction through the Royal Society Range to the Skelton Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1963 after Lieutenant Commander Edgar A. Potter (1924–1978) of the United States Navy , a helicopter pilot at McMurdo Station in 1960.
Web links
- Potter Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Potter Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1242 (English).