Ragotzkie glacier
| Ragotzkie glacier | ||
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| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Britannia Range | |
| length | 16 km | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 2 ′ S , 157 ° 45 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Hatherton Glacier | |
The Ragotzkie Glacier is a glacier in the Transantarctic Mountains . It flows in the Britannia Range along the west side of Mount Aldrich and unites with other north-flowing glaciers before the confluence with the Hatherton Glacier southwest of the Junction Spur .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1965 after Robert Austin Ragotzkie (* 1924), project manager of the United States Antarctic Research Program to study the lakes in the Antarctic dry valleys .
Web links
- Ragotzkie Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ragotzkie Glacier on geographic.org (English)