Sheraton Glacier
| Sheraton Glacier | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Mawson Escarpment | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 27 ′ S , 68 ° 24 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Lambert Glacier | |
The Sheraton Glacier is a small glacier in Mac Robertson Land, East Antarctica . It flows in the Mawson Escarpment in a westerly direction to the Lambert Glacier , which it reaches north of Casey Point .
The glacier was mapped using aerial photographs taken by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) in 1956, 1960 and 1973. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after the Australian geologist John W. Sheraton, a member of the ANARE team, who worked in the Prince Charles Mountains in 1973 .
Web links
- Sheraton Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sheraton Glacier on geographic.org (English)