Robison Glacier
| Robison Glacier | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 86 ° 29 ′ S , 148 ° 12 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Scott Glacier | |
The Robison Glacier is a wide glacier in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it flows in a north-westerly direction along the north side of the La Gorce Mountains to the Scott Glacier .
It was discovered in December 1934 by the geological team around Quin Blackburn (1900-1981) on the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1967 after Lieutenant Commander Layton E. Robison of the United States Navy , pilot of the VX-6 flight squadron in Operation Deep Freeze in 1964, 1965 and 1966.
Web links
- Robison Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Robison Glacier on geographic.org (English)