Dorchuck Glacier
Dorchuck Glacier ( WikiMiniAtlas
74°44′S 113°56′W / 74.733°S 113.933°W / -74.733; -113.933) is a narrow glacier, 9 nautical miles (17 km) long, flowing northeast from Jenkins Heights between Klinger Ridge and Ellis Ridge into the Dotson Ice Shelf, on Walgreen Coast, Marie Byrd Land. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1959–67, and from Landsat imagery, 1972–73. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after , U.S. Navy, a nuclear power plant operator with the Naval Nuclear Power Unit at McMurdo Station, summer and winter seasons, Operation Deep Freeze, 1965 and 1969.[1]
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- ^ "Dorchuck Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-01-26.
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