Russell West Glacier
| Russell West Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 17.5 km | |
| width | ⌀ 6.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 41 ′ S , 58 ° 40 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Bone Bay | |
The Russell West Glacier is a 17.5 km long and 6.5 km wide glacier in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies immediately north of the Detroit Plateau and flows from Mount Canicula in a westerly direction to Bone Bay on the north side of the Trinity Peninsula . Together with the Russell East Glacier , which flows east to the Prinz Gustav Canal , it forms a glacier system that cuts through the Antarctic Peninsula in an east-west direction. The Allen Knoll ice dome rises to a height of860 m 3 km northwest of the head end of the Russell West Glacier emerges from a flat firn field .
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 West Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Russell West Glacier on geographic.org (English)