Zwally glacier
| Zwally glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Concord Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 35 km | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 13 ′ S , 165 ° 8 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Ebb glacier | |
The Zwally Glacier is an approximately 35 km long glacier in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . In the Concord Mountains in the northern part of the Everett Range it flows first southeast, then in northwest direction, initially parallel to the Ebbe Glacier , into which it flows between Mount Craven and the Everett Spur .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2011 after H. Jay Zwally, one of the leading glaciologists in the polar program of the National Science Foundation between 1972 and 1974, who through his work at NASA between 1974 and 2009 was one of the driving forces behind the use of ICESat for determination was the thickness of the Antarctic Ice Sheet in 2003.
Web links
- Zwally Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)