Quito glacier
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 Map of Greenwich Island with the Quito Glacier (top right) |
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| location | Greenwich Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 27 ′ S , 59 ° 47 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Guayaquil Bay | |
The Quito Glacier ( Spanish Glaciar Quito ) is a glacier in the north of Greenwich Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . With a northerly direction of flow, it flows directly east of Punta Cuenca into Guayaquil Bay .
Participants in an Ecuadorian Antarctic expedition named it around 1990 after Ecuador's capital Quito .
Web links
- Quito Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Quito Glacier on geographic.org (English)