Gilchrist Glacier

Gilchrist Glacier (66°7′S 114°6′E / 66.117°S 114.100°E / -66.117; 114.100) is a short channel glacier flowing to Budd Coast 9 nautical miles (17 km) northwest of Fox Glacier. Delineated by G.D. Blodgett (1955) from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump (1946–47). Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Dr. Edward Gilchrist, Acting Surgeon on the sloop Wilkes.[1]

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Gilchrist Glacier


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/21/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.