Velasco glacier
| Velasco glacier | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| length | 8 kilometers | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ S , 101 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Amundsen lake | |
The Velasco Glacier is an 8 km long glacier on the Walgreen Coast of the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . It flows in a westerly direction towards the Backer Islands .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2003 after Miguel G. Velasco of the United States Geological Survey in Flagstaff , Arizona , who was involved in the creation of maps of Antarctica using images from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer in the 1990s .
Web links
- Velasco Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Velasco Glacier on geographic.org (English)