Feature Name (see definition): Bindschadler Glacier

Feature Class (see definition): Glacier

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 1385

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 77° 58' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 162° 09' 00" E

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -77.9666667

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): 162.15

Elevation (see definition): No data

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1992

Description (see definition): A glacier in the NW part of Royal Society Range, Victoria Land, flowing N between Table Mountain and Platform Spur to join Emmanuel Glacier. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1992 after glaciologist Robert A. Bindschadler of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; from 1983 a principal investigator for U.S. Antarctic Research Program (USARP) studies of the West Antarctic ice sheet including dynamics of ice streams in the Siple Coast area, their interaction with the Ross Ice Shelf, and the role of polar ice sheets in global climate change.

Date Created (see definition): No data

Date Edited (see definition): No data