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词条 Rignot Glacier
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{{Infobox glacier
| child =
| name = Rignot Glacier
| other_name =
| photo = Thurston Island - en.svg
| photo_alt =
| photo_caption = Map of Thurston Island
| map = Antarctica
| map_width =
| map_alt =
| map_caption = Location of Rignot Glacier in Antarctica
| mark = Blue_pog.svg
| type =
| location = Ellsworth Land
| coordinates = {{coord|73|06|00|S|102|00|00|W|region:AQ|format=dms|display=inline}}
| coords_ref =
| area =
| length = {{convert|4|nmi|}}
| width =
| thickness = unknown
| elevation_max =
| elevation_min =
| terminus = Abbot Ice Shelf
| status = unknown
| embedded =
}}

Rignot Glacier ({{coord|73|6|S|102|0|W|display=inline,title}}) is a glacier about {{convert|4|nmi|}} long draining north from the King Peninsula into Abbot Ice Shelf. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Eric Rignot, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, geophysicist; uses field and remotely sensed data to study Antarctic glacier mechanics from the 1990s to the present.

See also

  • List of glaciers in the Antarctic
  • Glaciology

References

  • {{usgs-gazetteer}}
{{Portalbar|Antarctica|Geography}}{{Glaciers}}{{Glaciers in the Antarctic}}{{Glaciers of Ellsworth Land}}{{EllsworthLand-geo-stub}}{{ThurstonIsland-geo-stub}}{{Glaciology-stub}}

1 : Glaciers of Ellsworth Land

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