Velasco Glacier Explained

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.

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