- Acosta Glacier
Acosta Glacier (coord|71|58|S|100|55|W|type:glacier_region:AQ|display=inline,title) is a
glacier about 2mile s (3.2 km) long flowing north fromThurston Island just east ofDyer Point . Named byAdvisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) afterAlex V. Acosta ,United States Geological Survey (USGS), Flagstaff, Arizona, Computer and graphic specialist, part of the USGS team that compiled the 1:5,000,000-scaleAdvanced Very High Resolution Radiometer satellite image maps of Antarctica and the 1: 250,000-scaleLandsat TM image maps of theSiple Coast area in the 1990s.
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