Helfferich Glacier

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Helfferich Glacier is a glacier in Antarctica. It is about 8 miles long and drains the east slopes of Pomerantz Tableland southward of Armstrong Platform, in the USARP Mountains. Its position is latitude 70˚ 35' 00.0"S, 160˚ 12' 00.0"E. It was named by US Advisory Board on Antarctic Names of the United States Board on Geographic Names for Merritt Randolph Helfferich, a U.S. Antarctic Research Program (USARP) worker at the Amundsen Scott South Pole Station during the 1967-68 season. Mr. Helfferich was installing equipment and monitoring All-Sky time-lapse photography of the Aurora Australis for research in ionospheric physics for the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks.