Severinghaus Glacier
| Severinghaus Glacier | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 40 ′ S , 85 ° 15 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Bender glacier | |
The Severinghaus Glacier is a glacier in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It flows to the south of the Sentinel Range in the Ellsworth Mountains in a westerly direction along the north side of Mount Strybing to the Bender Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2006 after the American geoscientist Jeffrey Peck Severinghaus (* 1959) from the Californian Scripps Institution of Oceanography , who carried out research on greenhouse gases and geological climate change using ice cores in 1996 as part of the United States Antarctic Program .
Web links
- Severinghaus Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Severinghaus Glacier on geographic.org (English)