Sirocco glacier
| Sirocco glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 5 km | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 24 '22 " S , 68 ° 31' 38" W | |
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| drainage | West Bay | |
The Sirocco Glacier is a 5 km long glacier on the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows in a north-northeast direction to West Bay , which it reaches between the Brindle Cliffs and Mount Edgell .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1977 after the sirocco , a desert wind from the Sahara .
Web links
- Sirocco Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sirocco Glacier on geographic.org (English)