Gillespie Glacier

Gillespie Glacier (85°11′S 175°12′W / 85.183°S 175.200°W / -85.183; -175.200) is a small tributary glacier just southwest of Mount Kenyon, descending the west slopes of the Cumulus Hills to enter Shackleton Glacier. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Lester F. Gillespie, United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) physicist at South Pole Station, winter 1962.[1]

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Gillespie Glacier


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