Chavez Glacier | |
Map: | Antarctica |
Mark: | Blue_pog.svg |
Location: | Ellsworth Land |
Coordinates: | -73.9167°N -116°W |
Length: | 10nmi |
Thickness: | unknown |
Terminus: | Cranton Bay |
Status: | unknown |
Chavez Glacier is a glacier about 10nmi long flowing south from Canisteo Peninsula into Cranton Bay. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Pat Chavez of the United States Geological Survey (USGS), Flagstaff, Arizona, co-leader of the USGS team that compiled the 1:5,000,000-scale Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer maps of Antarctica in the 1990s.