Rivard glacier
| Rivard glacier | ||
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| location | Viktorialand , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 1.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| drainage | Koettlitz glacier | |
The Rivard Glacier is a small glacier at the head of the Marshall Valley in East Antarctic Victoria Land .
He was discovered and mapped by Troy L. Péwé (1918–1999), glaciologist at Arizona State University during Operation Deep Freeze (1957–1958). Péwé named the glacier after his assistant Norman R. Rivard (1933–2007).
Web links
- Rivard Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rivard Glacier on geographic.org (English)