Thomson Glacier (73°27′S 80°13′W) is a glacier about 8 nautical miles (15 km) long on Bryan Coast flowing between Rydberg and Wirth Peninsulas into Fladerer Bay. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Janet W. Thomson, British Antarctic Survey, head of the mapping operations from the 1980s to 2002, and member of the USA-UK cooperative project to compile Glaciological and Coastal-Change Maps of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Map of Thomson Glacier, Antarctica
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Thomson Glacier" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).
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