Thomson Glacier
| Thomson Glacier | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| length | 13 km | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 27 ′ S , 80 ° 13 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Fladerer Bay | |
The Thomson Glacier is a 13 km long glacier on the Bryan coast of the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It flows between the Rydberg and Wirth peninsula to Fladerer Bay .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2003 after Janet Wendy Thomson (* 1942) from the British Antarctic Survey , head of the US-British project for the creation of glaciological maps and those for coastal changes on the Antarctic Peninsula from the 1980s to 2002.
Web links
- Thomson Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Thomson Glacier on geographic.org (English)