Rignot Glacier (73°6′S 102°0′W) is a glacier about 4 nautical miles (7 km) long draining north from the King Peninsula into Abbot Ice Shelf. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Eric Rignot, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, geophysicist; uses field and remotely sensed data to study Antarctic glacier mechanics from the 1990s to the present.
Map of Rignot Glacier, Antarctica
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Rignot Glacier" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).
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