Sivjee glacier
| Sivjee glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 16 km | |
| Coordinates | 81 ° 57 ′ S , 159 ° 23 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Starshot glacier | |
The Sivjee Glacier is a 16 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Churchill Mountains, it flows northward from the northeast slopes of Hunt Mountain along the west side of Stark Ridge to Starshot Glacier , which it reaches south of Mount Hoskins .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2003 after Gulamabas G. Sivjee, who from 1991 to 2001 was a senior scientist of the United States Antarctic Program who was involved in spectroscopic and interferometric studies of the night sky and aurora in the upper atmosphere above the geographic South Pole .
Web links
- Sivjee Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sivjee Glacier on geographic.org (English)