This page presents the geographical name data for
Bender Glacier in Antarctica, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division
Feature Name
(see definition):
Bender Glacier
Feature Class
(see definition):
Glacier
Country Code
(see definition): AQ (Antarctica)
Feature ID
(see definition):
18829
Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds
(see definition):
78° 43' 00" S
Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds
(see definition):
085° 20' 00" W
Primary Latitude in decimal degrees
(see definition):
-78.7166667
Primary Longitude in decimal degrees
(see definition):
-85.3333333
Elevation
(see definition):
No data
Decision Year
(see definition):
11/01/2006
Description
(see definition):
A glacier flowing S from Mount Atkinson and Mount Craddock into the Nimitz Glacier in S Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (2006) after Professor Michael L. Bender, Department of Geosciences (Geochemistry), Princeton University (earlier, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island), whose paleoclimate research from 1984 centered on the glacial-interglacial climate change and the global carbon cycle.
Date Created
(see definition):
08/06/2007
Date Edited
(see definition):
No data
NOTE: The information regarding
Bender Glacier in Antarctica on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the Antarctica, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of
Bender Glacier information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about
Bender Glacier should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.