Rexford Glacier
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| location | Thurston Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 5 ′ S , 100 ° 4 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Wagoner Inlet | |
The Rexford Glacier is a glacier in the north of Thurston Island before Eights Coast of the West Antarctic Ellsworthlands . It flows in a north-easterly direction to the head end of Wagoner Inlet .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2003 after Phillip Walter Rexford (1925-2016), aircraft operator on board a Martin PBM Mariner during Operation Highjump (1946-1947) carried out by the United States Navy to create aerial photographs of the Thurston -Island and the neighboring mainland coast.
Web links
- Rexford Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rexford Glacier on geographic.org (English)