词条 | Rignot Glacier |
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| 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
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1 : Glaciers of Ellsworth Land |
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