- Veststraumen Glacier
Veststraumen Glacier (coord|74|15|S|15|0|W|type:glacier_region:AQ|display=inline,title) is a
glacier about 45 miles long draining west along the south end ofKraul Mountains intoRiiser-Larsen Ice Shelf . The glacier was seen in the course of aU.S. Navy LC-130 plane flight over the coast onNovember 5 ,1967 , and was plotted by theUnited States Geological Survey (USGS) from photographs obtained at that time. In 1969, theAdvisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) gave the name "Endurance Glacier" to this feature (in remembrance of the ill-fated voyage of the Endurance in this part ofWeddell Sea in 1915), but that naming was rescinded becauseUK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) gave the identical name to a small glacier onElephant Island . The descriptive name "Veststraumen" (the west stream) appears on a 1972Norsk Polarinstitutt map.
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