Vandament Glacier
| Vandament Glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Dominion Range , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 10 km | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ S , 167 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Vandament Glacier is a 10 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It drains the east-central ice cap of the Dominion Range , flows eastwards south of the Koski Glacier and ends 3 km northwest of the Safety Spur .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Charles Hugh Vandament (1935-2005), ionospheric physicist of the United States Antarctic Research Program at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 1962.
Web links
- Vandament Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Vandament Glacier on geographic.org (English)