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Chavez Glacier (73°55′S 101°15′W) is a glacier about 10 nmi (19 km; 12 mi) long flowing south from Canisteo Peninsula into Cranton Bay. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Pat Chavez of the United States Geological Survey (USGS), Flagstaff, Arizona, co-leader of the USGS team that compiled the 1:5,000,000-scale Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer maps of Antarctica in the 1990s.
See also
List of glaciers in the Antarctic
Glaciology
References
This article incorporates public domain material from "Chavez Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
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