Shuman Glacier
| Shuman Glacier | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| length | 10 km | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ S , 139 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Southern ocean | |
The Shuhman Glacier is a 10 km long glacier on the Ruppert coast of Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . It flows north of the Strauss Glacier and flows into the Southern Ocean .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2003 after Christopher A. Shuman from the University of Maryland , who had studied the ice currents of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in theory and practice from the 1990s .
Web links
- Shuman Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Shuman Glacier on geographic.org (English)