Rignot Glacier
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| Rignot Glacier | |
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 Map of Thurston Island | |
  Location of Rignot Glacier in Antarctica | |
| Location | Ellsworth Land |
| Coordinates | 73°06′00″S 102°00′00″W / 73.10000°S 102.00000°W / -73.10000; -102.00000 |
| Length | 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) |
| Thickness | unknown |
| Terminus | Abbot Ice Shelf |
| Status | unknown |
Rignot Glacier (73°6′S 102°0′W / 73.100°S 102.000°W / -73.100; -102.000Coordinates: 73°6′S 102°0′W / 73.100°S 102.000°W / -73.100; -102.000) is a glacier about 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) 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.
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This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Rignot Glacier". (content from the Geographic Names Information System) 
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