Stapleton Glacier
| Stapleton Glacier | ||
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| location | Thurston Island , West Antarctica | |
| length | 10 km | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ S , 102 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Abbot Ice Shelf | |
The Stapleton Glacier is a 10 km long glacier in the south of Thurston Island off the Eights coast of the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It flows from the King Peninsula immediately north of the Morelli Glacier in an easterly direction to the Abbot Ice Shelf in Peacock Sound .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2003 after Jo Anne Stapleton, geographer with the United States Geological Survey , who had been involved in the creation of high-resolution maps of Antarctica since the 1980s .
Web links
- Stapleton Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stapleton Glacier on geographic.org (English)