Stapleton Glacier

Stapleton Glacier
Location of Stapleton Glacier in Antarctica
Location	King Peninsula
Coordinates	72°56′S 102°30′W / 72.933°S 102.500°W / -72.933; -102.500
Length	6 nmi (11 km; 7 mi)
Thickness	unknown
Status	unknown

Stapleton Glacier (72°56′S 102°30′W / 72.933°S 102.500°W / -72.933; -102.500) is a glacier about 6 nautical miles (11 km) long flowing east from King Peninsula just north of Morelli Glacier. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Jo Anne Stapleton, United States Geological Survey (USGS), Reston, Virginia, geographer and map specialist, participated in Antarctic map production from the 1980s to the present, part of the USGS team that compiled the 1:5,000,000-scale Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer maps of Antarctica and the 1: 250,000-scale Landsat TM image maps of the Siple Coast area.^[1]

See also

• List of glaciers in the Antarctic
• Glaciology

References

•  This article incorporates public domain material from "Stapleton Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. 

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