Feature Name (see definition): Acosta Glacier

Feature Class (see definition): Glacier

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 18334

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 71° 58' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 100° 55' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -71.9666667

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -100.9166667

Elevation (see definition): No data

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/2003

Description (see definition): Glacier about 2 mi long flowing N from Thurston Island just E of Dyer Point. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Alex V. Acosta, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Flagstaff, Arizona, Computer and graphic specialist, part of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) team that compiled the 1:5,000,000-scale Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer satellite image maps of Antarctica and the 1: 250,000-scale Landsat TM image maps of the Siple Coast area in the 1990s.

Date Created (see definition): 01/31/2003

Date Edited (see definition): No data