Thomson Glacier | |
Map: | Antarctica |
Mark: | Blue_pog.svg |
Location: | Bryan Coast |
Coordinates: | -73.45°N -93°W |
Length: | 8nmi |
Thickness: | unknown |
Status: | unknown |
Thomson Glacier (-73.45°N -93°W) is a glacier about 8 nautical miles (15 km) long on Bryan Coast flowing between Rydberg and Wirth Peninsulas into Fladerer Bay. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Janet W. Thomson, British Antarctic Survey, head of the mapping operations from the 1980s to 2002, and member of the USA-UK cooperative project to compile Glaciological and Coastal-Change Maps of the Antarctic Peninsula.