Roe Glacier
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location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
length | 16 km | |
Coordinates | 85 ° 36 ′ S , 151 ° 26 ′ W | |
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drainage | Scott Glacier |
The Roe Glacier is a 16 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains it flows in a north-westerly direction through the Tapley Mountains and flows south of Mount Durham into the Scott Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1963 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after Derrell M. Roe, who participated in two Antarctic summer campaigns between 1963 and 1965 had belonged to the occupation of McMurdo Station , whose engineer he was in the Antarctic winter of 1966.
Web links
- Roe Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Roe Glacier on geographic.org (English)