Rastorfer Glacier

Rastorfer Glacier
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location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Admiralty Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	71 ° 50 ′ S , 167 ° 6 ′ E Coordinates: 71 ° 50 ′ S , 167 ° 6 ′ E
drainage	Tucker Glacier

The Rastorfer Glacier is a glacier in the Admiralty Mountains in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . It flows south to the upper section of the Tucker Glacier , which it reaches east of the Homerun Range .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of surveys and with the help of aerial photographs of the United States Navy from the years between 1960 and 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 after the American biologist James Raymond Rastorfer (* 1936), who as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program at McMurdo Station (1967–1968) and at Palmer Station (1968–1969).

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