Chavez Glacier

Chavez Glacier (73°55′S 101°15′W / 73.917°S 101.25°W / -73.917; -101.25) is a glacier about 10 miles (16 km) long flowing south from Canisteo Peninsula into Cranton Bay. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Pat Chavez of the United States Geological Survey (USGS), Flagstaff, Arizona, co-leader of the USGS team that compiled the 1:5,000,000-scale Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer maps of Antarctica in the 1990s.

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

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