Zinberg Glacier Explained

Zinberg Glacier
Map:Antarctica
Mark:Blue_pog.svg
Location:Thurston Island
Ellsworth Land
Coordinates:-72.35°N -96.0667°W
Thickness:unknown
Status:unknown

Zinberg Glacier (-72.35°N -100°W) is a glacier in east Thurston Island; it flows east-northeast into Morgan Inlet between Tierney Peninsula and the promontory ending in Ryan Point. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Cpl. E. Zinberg, U.S. Army photographer in the Eastern Group of U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, which obtained aerial photographs of Thurston Island and adjacent coastal areas, 1946–47.

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