Waddington Glacier
| Waddington Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 5 km | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| drainage | Palais glacier | |
The Waddington Glacier is a 5 km long glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows in a west-north-westerly direction along the south side of Ugolini Peak in the Colwell massif to the Palais Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1994 after the US geophysicist Edward D. Waddington (* 1950) from the University of Washington , who was involved in extensive glaciological studies of the Taylor Dome from 1990 onwards .
Web links
- Waddington Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Waddington Glacier on geographic.org (English)