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Antarctica ID: | 15284 |
Name: | Thwaites Glacier Tongue |
Class: | Glacier |
Latitude: | -75 |
Longitude: | -106.8333333 |
Description: | A glacier tongue, about 20 mi wide and 40 mi long, which is the seaward extension of Thwaites Glacier into the Amundsen Sea. It enters the sea about 30 mi E of Mount Murphy in Marie Byrd Land. Delineated from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy (USN) OpHjp in January 1947. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Fredrik T. Thwaites, glacial geologist, geomorphologist and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin. |
BGN: | 01-JAN-67 |
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