Sotikow Glacier
| Sotikow Glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Olav Mountains , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 13 km | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 2 ′ S , 169 ° 15 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Liv glacier | |
The Sotikow Glacier is a 13 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Prince Olav Mountains of the Queen Maud Mountains, it flows in a northeastern direction from Mount Fisher to the Liv Glacier , which it reaches immediately east of Hardiman Peak .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him after the Soviet glaciologist Igor Alexejewitsch Sotikow (1926-2010), who worked as an exchange scientist for the United States Antarctic Research Program in 1965 at McMurdo Station .
Web links
- Zotikov Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Zotikov Glacier on geographic.org (English)