Russell East Glacier
| Russell East Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 10 km | |
| width | ⌀ 5 km | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 43 '28 " S , 58 ° 21' 58" W | |
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| drainage | Prince Gustav Canal | |
The Russell East Glacier is a 10 km long and 5 km wide glacier in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located immediately north of the Detroit Plateau and flows from Mount Canicula in an easterly direction to the Prince Gustav Canal on the south side of the Trinity Peninsula . Together with the Russell West Glacier , which flows west to Bone Bay , it forms a glacier system that cuts through the Antarctic Peninsula in an east-west direction.
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) carried out a geodetic survey of the area in 1946 . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1955 after Victor Ian Russell (1918-2000), surveyor and head of the FIDS research station in Hope Bay in 1946.
Web links
- Russell East Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Russell East Glacier on geographic.org (English)