The Sikorski Glacier is a small glacier in the north-eastern part of the Noville Peninsula, Thurston Island, Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. It flows north-east to the Bellingshausen Sea between Mount Palmer and Mount Feury. It was first roughly delineated from aerial photos taken by the USN's Operation Highjump in 1946–47. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Stephen Sikorski, electronics technician on USS Glacier, who assisted in setting up an automatic weather station on Thurston Island during the USN's Bellingshausen Sea Expedition in February 1960.
| Sikorski Glacier | |
|---|---|
 Map of Thurston Island | |
  Location of Sikorski Glacier in Antarctica | |
| Location | Ellsworth Land |
| Coordinates | 71°49′00″S 98°24′00″W / 71.81667°S 98.40000°W |
| Thickness | unknown |
| Terminus | Bellingshausen Sea |
| Status | unknown |
Important Bird Area edit
A 316 ha site on fast ice north of the glacier has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a breeding colony of about 3,500 emperor penguins, based on 2009 satellite imagery.[1]
See also edit
Maps edit
- Thurston Island – Jones Mountains. 1:500000 Antarctica Sketch Map. US Geological Survey, 1967.
- Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.
References edit
- ^ "Sikorski Glacier, Noville Peninsula". BirdLife Data Zone. BirdLife International. 2015. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
This article incorporates public domain material from "Sikorski Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
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