Velasco Glacier | |
Map: | Antarctica |
Mark: | Blue_pog.svg |
Location: | Walgreen Coast |
Coordinates: | -74.2667°N -112°W |
Length: | 5nmi |
Thickness: | unknown |
Status: | unknown |
Velasco Glacier (-74.2667°N -112°W) is a glacier about 5 nautical miles (9 km) long flowing west from Walgreen Coast toward the Backer Islands. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Miguel G. Velasco, a United States Geological Survey (USGS) computer specialist, and part of the USGS team that compiled the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer 1:5,000,000-scale maps of Antarctica in the 1990s.