Vornberger Glacier
| Vornberger Glacier | ||
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| location | Siple Island , Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| length | 16 km | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 55 ′ S , 125 ° 4 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Getz Ice Shelf | |
The Vornberger Glacier is a 16 km long glacier on the Siple Island off the Bakutis coast of the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . It drains the north side of the island and flows into the Getz Ice Shelf .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2003 after the glaciologist Patricia Vornberger (* 1961) from NASA , a specialist in the evaluation of remote sensing data for the observation of ice movement in West Antarctica since the 1980s.
Web links
- Vornberger Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Vornberger Glacier on geographic.org (English)