Zonda glacier
| Zonda glacier | ||
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 13 km | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 33 ′ S , 68 ° 23 ′ W | |
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| drainage | George VI Sound | |
The Zonda Glacier is a 13 km long glacier on the Rymill Coast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows in a west-north-westerly direction between the Föhn Bastion and the Zonda Towers to George VI Sound .
Measurements were made by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1948 and the British Antarctic Survey from 1971 to 1972 . Aerial photographs were taken in 1966 by the United States Navy . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1977 after the Zonda , a foehn wind in the Argentine Andes .
Web links
- Zonda Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Zonda Glacier on geographic.org (English)