Thompson Glacier Explained

Thompson Glacier
Photo Width:250px
Map:Antarctica
Mark:Blue_pog.svg
Type:channel
Location:Wilkes Land
Coordinates:-66.75°N 123.65°W
Thickness:unknown
Terminus:Paulding Bay
Status:unknown

Thompson Glacier (-66.75°N 162°W) is a channel glacier draining northward to the head of Paulding Bay. Delineated by G.D. Blodgett (1955) from aerial photographs taken by Operation Highjump (1946–47). Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Egbert Thompson, Midshipman on the sloop Wilkes.

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