Roos Glacier
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 Topographic map (1: 250,000) of Mount Murphy with the Roos Glacier (top center) |
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Mount Murphy massif | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 17 ′ S , 110 ° 57 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Crosson Ice Shelf | |
The Roos Glacier is a steep glacier that drains the northwest slopes of Mount Murphy in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica, near the Walgreen Coast .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1976 after the American oceanographer Sven Edward Roos (1907-1984), who had accompanied the polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd on his first (1928-1930) and second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935).
Web links
- Roos Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Roos Glacier on geographic.org (English)