Wyckoff Glacier
| Wyckoff Glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Alexandra Chain , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 10 km | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| drainage | Walcott Firn Field | |
The Wyckoff Glacier is a 10 km long glacier on the Dufek Coast in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It flows in a westerly direction from the Grindley plateau north of Lamping Peak through the Queen Alexandra chain to the Walcott Firnfeld , which it reaches north of the confluence of the Prebble Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Kent A. Wyckoff, a meteorologist for the United States Antarctic Program at the research station at Cape Hallett in 1963.
Web links
- Wyckoff Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wyckoff Glacier on geographic.org (English)