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.- Glacier with an elevation of around 270 metres (900 feet)
- Description: glacier in Antarctica
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-73.91667° or 73° 55′ south
Longitude
-101.25° or 101° 15′ west
Open location code
25RW3QM2+82
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Chavez Glacier” goes by many names.
Chavez GlacierCebuano
查維斯冰川Chinese
Chavez GlacierFulah
Ghiacciaio ChavezItalian
ChavezbreenNorwegian Nynorsk
Chavez GlacierSwedish
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