Blackwelder Glacier (77°56′S 164°11′E / 77.933°S 164.183°E / -77.933; 164.183) is a pocket glacier, 1 nautical mile (2 km) wide and 2 nautical miles (4 km) long, between Salmon Hill and Hobbs Glacier in Victoria Land. The glacier was studied during U.S. Navy Operation Deepfreeze, 1957–58, by Troy L. Pewe and was named by him for Eliot Blackwelder, former head of the Geology Department at Stanford University.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Blackwelder Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2011-07-25.

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