Shoemaker Glacier

Shoemaker Glacier
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location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Southern Cross Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	73 ° 47 ′ S , 164 ° 45 ′ E Coordinates: 73 ° 47 ′ S , 164 ° 45 ′ E
drainage	Aviator Glacier

The Shoemaker Glacier is a glacier in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . It flows in the Southern Cross Mountains in an easterly direction along the south side of the Daley Hills to the Aviator Glacier .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and with the help of aerial photographs of the United States Navy between 1960 and 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1969 after Lieutenant Brian Hall Shoemaker (* 1937) of the US Navy, helicopter pilot of the VX flight squadron -6 at McMurdo Station in 1967.

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