Sikorski Glacier (Thurston Island)
| Sikorski glacier | ||
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| location | Thurston Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 49 ′ S , 98 ° 24 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Bellingshausen lake | |
The Sikorski Glacier is a small glacier in the north of Thurston Island off the Eights coast of the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It flows in the north-eastern section of the Noville Peninsula in a north-easterly direction between Mount Palmer and Mount Feury to the Bellingshausen Sea .
An initial rough determination of the glacier's position was based on aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy during Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1960 after Stephen Sikorski, electrical engineer on board the icebreaker USS Glacier and involved in the construction of a weather station on Thurston Island during the US Navy's research expedition into the Bellingshausen Sea in February 1960.
Web links
- Sikorski Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sikorski Glacier on geographic.org (English)