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Velasco Glacier

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Velasco Glacier (74°16′S 101°11′W) is a glacier about 5 nautical miles (9 km) long flowing west from Walgreen Coast toward the Backer Islands. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Miguel G. Velasco, a United States Geological Survey (USGS) computer specialist, and part of the USGS team that compiled the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer 1:5,000,000-scale maps of Antarctica in the 1990s.

Map of Velasco Glacier, Antarctica

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

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Velasco Glacier Wikipedia


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