Savage glacier
| Savage glacier | ||
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| location | Thurston Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 28 ′ S , 96 ° 9 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Seraph Bay | |
The Savage Glacier is a glacier at the eastern end of Thurston Island off the Eights coast of West Antarctic Ellsworthland . It flows south of the Tierney Peninsula east to Seraph Bay .
It was discovered in February 1960 during helicopter flights from the USCGC Burton Island and the USS Glacier as part of the United States Navy research trip to the Bellingshausen Sea . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1960 after Lieutenant John Savage, dental officer aboard the USS Glacier , who helped set up geodetic checkpoints in the area.
Web links
- Savage Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Savage Glacier on geographic.org (English)