Jacobel Glacier
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Jacobel Glacier () is a glacier about 30 miles (48 km) long draining to the Sulzberger Ice Shelf south of Hershey Ridge. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Robert W. Jacobel, Grace A. Whittier Chair of Physics, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, Antarctic researcher from the 1980s to the present; research interests include the combination of ground based radar and ice core studies in West Antarctica.
This article incorporates text from Jacobel Glacier, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
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