Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Bender Glacier (USA) | 78° 43' 00.0" S | 85° 20' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 135883
Place ID: 18236
A glacier flowing S from Mount Atkinson and Mount Craddock into the Nimitz Glacier in S Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. Named by 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. |
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