Rignot glacier
| Rignot glacier | ||
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| location | Thurston Island , West Antarctica | |
| length | 6 km | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ S , 102 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Abbot Ice Shelf | |
The Rignot Glacier is a 6 km long glacier on Thurston Island off the Eights coast of the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It flows north from the King Peninsula to the Abbot Ice Shelf in Peacock Sound .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2003 after the geophysicist Eric Rignot of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory , who has been studying glacier movements in Antarctica since the 1990s .
Web links
- Rignot Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rignot Glacier on geographic.org (English)