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Shuman Glacier

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Shuman Glacier (75°15′S 139°30′W) is a glacier about 6 miles (10 km) long draining through the Ruppert Coast north of Strauss Glacier. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Christopher A. Shuman, faculty, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, field and theoretical researcher in the West Antarctic Ice Stream area from the 1990s to the present.

Map of Shuman Glacier, Antarctica

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Shuman Glacier" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

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Shuman Glacier Wikipedia