Kornicker Glacier
Location of Sentinel Range in Western Antarctica
Map showing the location of Kornicker Glacier
Map showing the location of Kornicker Glacier
Location of Kornicker Glacier in Antarctica
Typetributary
LocationEllsworth Land
Coordinates78°43′00″S 84°35′00″W / 78.71667°S 84.58333°W / -78.71667; -84.58333
Thicknessunknown
TerminusThomas Glacier
Statusunknown
Sentinel Range map.

Kornicker Glacier (78°43′S 84°35′W / 78.717°S 84.583°W / -78.717; -84.583) is a glacier draining northeastwards from the cirque bounded by Mount Liptak, Mount Southwick, Mount Milton and Mount Mullen in the southern Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The glacier flows along the northwestern side of Petvar Heights and merges with the terminus of the southeast-flowing Thomas Glacier as both glaciers emerge from the range.

Kornicker Glacier was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (2006) after Louis S. Kornicker, a research zoologist at the Department of Invertebrate Zoology (Crustacea), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 1964–2006, and a member of the Board of Associated Editors, Antarctic Research Series, American Geophysical Union, 1978–90.[1]

See also

Maps

  • Vinson Massif. Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1988.
  • Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.

References

  1. "Kornicker Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 14 May 2013.


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