Aitkenhead Glacier
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Aitkenhead Glacier | |
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Location of Trinity Peninsula | |
![]() ![]() Location of Aitkenhead Glacier in Antarctica | |
Location | Graham Land |
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Length | 16 km (9.9 mi) |
Terminus | Detroit Plateau |
Aitkenhead Glacier (63°57′S 58°44′W / 63.950°S 58.733°W / -63.950; -58.733Coordinates: WikiMiniAtlas
63°57′S 58°44′W / 63.950°S 58.733°W / -63.950; -58.733) is a 10-mile (16 km) long glacier flowing east-southeast from the Detroit Plateau, Graham Land, (south of Mancho Buttress and Baley Nunatak and north of Simpson Nunatak and Hitar Petar Nunatak) into Prince Gustav Channel (close north of Alectoria Island). It was mapped from surveys by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) (1960–61), and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for , a FIDS geologist at Hope Bay (1959–60).
See also[]
- List of glaciers in the Antarctic
Map[]
- Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
References[]
- SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Aitkenhead Glacier". (content from the Geographic Names Information System)
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