Weatherwax Glacier
| Weatherwax Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Kukri Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 38 ′ S , 163 ° 36 ′ E | |
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| drainage | New Harbor | |
The Weatherwax Glacier is a Kar glacier in East Antarctica Victoria Land . In the Kukri Hills it flows from a 800 m high mountain basin south of Mount Barnes to a narrow glacier tongue that ends on a cliff, 200 m above the New Harbor .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2000 after the American physicist Allan T. Weatherwax from the University of Maryland , who carried out ten field research campaigns between 1988 and 1999 to investigate the atmosphere , ionosphere and magnetosphere at McMurdo Station and the Amundsen-Scott -South Pole Station .
Web links
- Weatherwax Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Weatherwax Glacier on geographic.org (English)