Acosta Glacier
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Acosta Glacier
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Acosta Glacier is a glacier about 2 miles (3 km) long flowing north from Thurston Island just east of Dyer Point in Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Alex V. Acosta of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in Flagstaff, Arizona. He is a computer and graphic specialist, and was part of the USGS team that compiled the 1:5,000,000-scale Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer satellite image maps of Antarctica and the 1:250,000-scale Landsat
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Glacier in Antarctica
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acosta_Glacier
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2022-06-04T14:45:02Z
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