Gillespie Glacier
Gillespie Glacier (85°11′S 175°12′W) is a small tributary glacier just southwest of Mount Kenyon, descending the west slopes of the Cumulus Hills to enter Shackleton Glacier. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Lester F. Gillespie, United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) physicist at South Pole Station, winter 1962.[1]
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Type | tributary |
Location | Ross Dependency |
Coordinates | 85°11′S 175°12′W |
Thickness | unknown |
Terminus | Shackleton Glacier |
Status | unknown |
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