Vacchi Piedmont Glacier
| Vacchi Piedmont Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 34 ′ S , 164 ° 38 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Silverfish Bay | |
The Vacci Piedmont Glacier is a foreland glacier on the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It lies between the Shield Nunatak and Oscar Point and ends in Silverfish Bay .
The New Zealand Geographic Board named it in 2006 after the marine researcher Marino Vacchi, who was involved in the Italian Antarctic program from 1987 and was a member of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources from 1990 .
Web links
- Vacci Piedmont Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Vacci Piedmont Glacier on geographic.org (English)