Ruecroft glacier
| Ruecroft glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 13 ′ S , 161 ° 40 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Skelton Glacier | |
The Ruecroft Glacier is a steep glacier in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows east of the Holmes Block and south of the Rampart Ridge to the Skelton Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1994 after George Ruecroft, a cartographic technician in the specialty mapping division of the United States Geological Survey from 1960 to 1984.
Web links
- Ruecroft Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ruecroft Glacier on geographic.org (English)