- Dorchuck Glacier
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Dorchuck Glacier (74°44′S 113°56′W / 74.733°S 113.933°W) is a narrow glacier, 9 nautical miles (17 km) long, flowing northeast from Jenkins Heights between Klinger Ridge and Ellis Ridge into Dotson Ice Shelf, on Walgreen Coast, Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1959–67, and Landsat imagery, 1972-73. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Robert E. Dorchuck, U.S. Navy, nuclear power plant operator with the Naval Nuclear Power Unit at McMurdo Station, summer and winter seasons, Operation Deepfreeze, 1965 and 1969.
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