Mitchell Glacier

Mitchell Glacier (77°57′S 163°3′E / 77.95°S 163.05°E / -77.95; 163.05) is a glacier which descends steeply from Chaplains Tableland in northeast Royal Society Range, Victoria Land, flowing east-northeast between Transit Ridge and Ibarra Peak to join the Blue Glacier drainage south of Granite Knolls. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1992 after J. Murray Mitchell (1928–90), climatologist with the U.S. Weather Bureau and successor agencies, 1955–86; project scientist on climatic change, ESSA, 1965–74; senior research climatologist, NOAA, 1974–86; member, Polar Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, 1978-82 (Chairman of Committee on Polar Regions and Climatic Change, 1979–84); member, Advisory Committee to the Division of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation (NSF), 1988-90.

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