Robbins Glacier
| Robbins Glacier | ||
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| location | Thurston Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 10 ′ S , 98 ° 41 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Peale inlet | |
The Robbins Glacier is a broad glacier on Thurston Island before Eights Coast of the West Antarctic Ellsworthlands . It flows north to the head end of Peale Inlet .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2003 after James Haskin Robbins (* 1926) of the United States Navy , responsible for the on-board radar of a PBM Mariner that was in use in Operation Highjump (1946-1947) on December 30, 1946 on the neighboring Noville Peninsula had crashed. Robbins' efforts had contributed significantly to the fact that six members of the nine-man crew could be saved alive on January 12, 1947.
Web links
- Robbins Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Robbins Glacier on geographic.org (English)