Sylwester Glacier
| Sylwester Glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 8 kilometers | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| drainage | Law glacier | |
The Sylwester Glacier is an approximately 8 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It flows in a northerly direction between the Jacobs Nunatak and the MacAlpine Hills to the Law Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after David Luther Sylwester (1936-2013), aurora scientist of the United States Antarctic Program at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the Antarctic winter of 1961 and at the Byrd Station in the Antarctic summer of 1961/62.
Web links
- Sylwester Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sylwester Glacier on geographic.org (English)