Chavez Glacier
Chavez Glacier is a glacier about 10 nmi long flowing south from Canisteo Peninsula into Cranton Bay. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Pat Chavez of the United States Geological Survey, Flagstaff, Arizona, co-leader of the USGS team that compiled the 1:5,000,000-scale Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer maps of Antarctica in the 1990s.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Chavez Glacier
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 273 metres
- Description: glacier in Antarctica
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Chavez Glacier” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Chavez Glacier”
- Chinese: “查維斯冰川”
- German: “Chavez-Gletscher”
- Italian: “Ghiacciaio Chavez”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chavezbreen”
- Swedish: “Chavez Glacier”
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