Tracy glacier
| Tracy glacier | ||
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| location | Wilkesland , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 57 ′ S , 102 ° 20 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Shackleton Ice Shelf | |
The Tracy Glacier is a glacier on the Knox Coast of Wilkesland, East Antarctica . It flows north to the Shackleton Ice Shelf , which it reaches 6 km southwest of Cape Elliott .
The American cartographer Gardner Dean Blodgett (* 1925) mapped it in 1955 using aerial photographs of the American Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1955 after Lieutenant Lloyd W. Tracy, a pilot in the United States Navy in the US Operation Windmill (1947–1948), who was involved in the establishment of astronomical observation stations by the Kaiser Wilhelm II. Coast to the Budd coast .
Web links
- Tracy Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tracy Glacier on geographic.org (English)