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Feature Name (see definition): Joughin Glacier Feature Class (see definition): Glacier Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica) Feature ID (see definition): 19164 Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -73.7666667 Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -62.4 Elevation (see definition): No data Decision Year (see definition): 07/07/2008 Description (see definition): A glacier east of Watson Peaks, flowing southeast into Wright Inlet, Lassiter Coast. Named by ACAN (2008) after Ian Joughin, electrical engineer, who pioneered the use of interferometric synthetic aperture radar to estimate surface motion and topography of ice sheets both in Antarctica and Greenland. He has used remote sensing, field work, and modeling to study ice dynamics since the early 1990s. Date Created (see definition): 07/07/2008 Date Edited (see definition): No data
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