Acosta Glacier facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Acosta Glacier |
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 Location in Antarctica
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| Location | Ellsworth Land |
| Coordinates | 71°58′S 100°55′W / 71.967°S 100.917°W |
| Length | 2 nmi (4 km; 2 mi) |
| Thickness | unknown |
| Terminus | east of Dyer Point |
| Status | unknown |
Acosta Glacier (71°58′S 100°55′W / 71.967°S 100.917°W) is a glacier about 2 miles (3 km) long flowing north from Thurston Island just east of Dyer Point in Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Alex V. Acosta of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in Flagstaff, Arizona. He is a computer and graphic specialist, and was part of the USGS team that compiled the 1:5,000,000-scale Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer satellite image maps of Antarctica and the 1:250,000-scale Landsat image maps of the Siple Coast area in the 1990s.
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