Clarke Glacier (Marie Byrd Land)

Clarke Glacier Coordinates: 75°11′S 139°06′W / 75.183°S 139.1°W / -75.183; -139.1 is a 8 mile long glacier that drains from Coulter Heights to Hull Bay. It was named in 2003 by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN).

It was named after Theodore S. Clarke, a University of Wisconsin–Madison geophysicist whose research in the 1990s focused on theoretical and field analysis of the ice stream area of West Antarctica.

See also

• List of glaciers in the Antarctic
• Geography of Antarctica
• Geology of Antarctica

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the United States Department of the Interior.

• "Clarke Glacier, ID 18339". Antarctica Feature Detail. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:5:::NO::P5_ANTAR_ID:18339. Retrieved 2007-06-24. 

External links

• "Atlas of Antarctic Research". http://gisdata.usgs.gov/website/antarctic_research_atlas/viewer.htm. Retrieved 2007-06-24.