Underwood glacier
| Underwood glacier | ||
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| location | Wilkesland , East Antarctica | |
| length | 24 km | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 35 ′ S , 108 ° 0 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Mawson Lake | |
The Underwood Glacier is a 15-mile long karst glacier on the Knox coast of Wilkesland, East Antarctica . It flows into the Mawson Sea between the Reist Rocks and Cape Nutt .
The American cartographer Gardner Dean Blodgett (* 1925) mapped it in 1955 using aerial photographs taken during Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the glacier in 1955 after Joseph Addison Underwood (1809-1840), lieutenant on the sloop USS Vincennes , flagship of the United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842) under the direction of the US polar explorer Charles Wilkes , who was killed by locals during this research trip on July 24, 1840 on one of the Fiji islands .
Web links
- Underwood Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Underwood Glacier on geographic.org (English)