Williams Glacier (Viktorialand)
| Williams Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 3.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| drainage | Emmanuel Glacier | |
The Williams Glacier is a 3.5 km long glacier in East Antarctica Victoria Land . In the Royal Society Range, it flows from Sladen Summit to Emmanuel Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1994 after the geologist Richard S. Williams Jr. of the United States Geological Survey , a capacity in the assessment of geomorphological processes in the flow behavior of glaciers using remote sensing data, especially in Iceland and Antarctica .
Web links
- Williams Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Williams Glacier on geographic.org (English)