Tate glacier

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Tate glacier
Topographic map (1: 250,000) with Tate Glacier (bottom left)

Topographic map (1: 250,000) with Tate Glacier (bottom left)

location Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 85 ° 54 ′  S , 160 ° 50 ′  W Coordinates: 85 ° 54 ′  S , 160 ° 50 ′  W
Tate Glacier (Antarctica)
Tate glacier
drainage Amundsen glacier
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The Tate Glacier is a glacier in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Queen Maud Mountains it flows on the south side of the Thomas Spur in an easterly direction and flows together with the Moffett Glacier into the Amundsen Glacier .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after the American geomagnetologist and seismologist Robert G. Tate, who joined the winter crew in 1964 belonged to the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station .

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