Velasco Glacier

Glacier in Antarctica

74°16′S 101°11′W / 74.267°S 101.183°W / -74.267; -101.183Length5 nmi (9 km; 6 mi)ThicknessunknownStatusunknown

Velasco Glacier (74°16′S 101°11′W / 74.267°S 101.183°W / -74.267; -101.183) is a glacier about 5 nautical miles (9 km) long flowing west from Walgreen Coast toward the Backer Islands. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Miguel G. Velasco, a United States Geological Survey (USGS) computer specialist, and part of the USGS team that compiled the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer 1:5,000,000-scale maps of Antarctica in the 1990s.

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