Sandy Glacier
| Sandy Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Olympus Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 0.6 km | |
| width | Max. 0.075 km | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Sandy Glacier (English for Sandy Glacier ) is a very small glacier in the East Antarctic Victoria Land with a length of 600 m and a width of 75 m . In the Olympus Range , it is 1 km east of Mount Orestes .
The American geologist Wakefield Dort Jr. (* 1923) from the University of Kansas explored it between 1965 and 1966 as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program . It is named after the layers of sand embedded in the ice of the glacier.
Web links
- Sandy Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sandy Glacier on geographic.org (English)