Skinner glacier
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 12 ′ S , 67 ° 59 ′ W | |
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| drainage | George VI Sound | |
The Skinner Glacier is a glacier on the Rymill Coast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows between Mount Dixey and Mount Flower in a south-southwest direction to George VI Sound , which it reaches immediately east of Carse Point .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1976 after the British geologist Alexander Cumming Skinner (* 1947), who worked for the British Antarctic Survey on Fossil Bluff and on Stonington Island from 1968 to 1970 .
Web links
- Skinner Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Skinner Glacier on geographic.org (English)