Tułaczyk Glacier
| Tułaczyk Glacier | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| Type | Valley glacier | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 35 ′ S , 85 ° 53 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Nimitz glacier | |
The Tułaczyk Glacier is a steep valley glacier in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It flows on the western slope of the Vinson massif between the Cairns Glacier and the Zapol Glacier in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains in a westerly direction to the Nimitz Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2006 after the Polish geoscientist Sławomir Tułaczyk (* 1966) from the University of California, Santa Cruz , who carried out studies of the West Antarctic ice flows in Marie Byrd Land in 1998 as part of the United States Antarctic Program .
Web links
- Tulaczyk Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tulaczyk Glacier on geographic.org (English)