Acosta Glacier | |
Map: | Antarctica |
Mark: | Blue_pog.svg |
Location: | Ellsworth Land |
Coordinates: | -71.9667°N -155°W |
Length: | 2nmi |
Thickness: | unknown |
Terminus: | east of Dyer Point |
Status: | unknown |
Acosta Glacier (-71.9667°N -155°W) is a glacier about 2miles 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.