Silk glacier
| Silk glacier | ||
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 Card sheet with the SILK GLACIER on the northern edge of the card |
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 15 km (roughly estimated) | |
| Coordinates | 81 ° 9 ′ S , 158 ° 55 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Nursery Glacier | |
The Silk Glacier is a 15-kilometer-long glacier that flows from the eastern slopes of the Churchill Mountains between Mount Frost and Mount Zinkovich to the Nursery Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him after Peter RH Silk of the Royal New Zealand Navy , commander of the HMNZS Endeavor II in Antarctic waters from 1963 to 1964.
Web links
- Silk Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Silk Glacier on geographic.org (English)