Goodspeed Glacier

Goodspeed Glacier (

77°30′S 162°29′E / 77.500°S 162.483°E / -77.500; 162.483Coordinates: 77°30′S 162°29′E / 77.500°S 162.483°E / -77.500; 162.483) is a small hanging glacier on the south wall of Wright Valley in Victoria Land, Antarctica, between Hart Glacier and Denton Glacier. It was named by U.S. geologist after , geological assistant to Nichols at nearby Marble Point in the 1959–60 field season.^[1]

Further reading[]

• Gunter Faure, Teresa M. Mensing, The Transantarctic Mountains: Rocks, Ice, Meteorites and Water, P 716
• Edmund Stump, The Ross Orogen of the Transantarctic Mountains, P 104
• James G. Bockheim, The Soils of Antarctica, P 129
• Denton, George H., Sugden David, E., Marchant, David R., Hall, Brenda L. and Wilch, Thomas I., EAST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET SENSITIVITY TO PLIOCENE CLIMATIC CHANGE FROM A DRY VALLEYS PERSPECTIVE , Geogr. Ann. 75 A (4): 155–204, P 192

References[]

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Goodspeed Glacier". (content from the Geographic Names Information System)