Reuning Glacier
| Reuning Glacier | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 25 ′ S , 72 ° 38 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Hushen Glacier | |
The Reuning Glacier is a glacier on the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . On the north side of the Beethoven Peninsula, it flows in a north-westerly direction to the Hushen Glacier just before it flows into the Mendelssohn Inlet .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy from 1967 to 1968 and Landsat photographs from 1972 and 1973. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the glacier after Winifred M. Reuning from the department of the Polar Program of the National Science Foundation and from 1980 editor of the Antarctic Journal of the United States .
Web links
- Reuning Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Reuning Glacier on geographic.org (English)