Shuman Glacier (75°15′S 139°30′W / 75.250°S 139.500°W) is a glacier about 6 miles (10 km) long draining through the Ruppert Coast north of Strauss Glacier. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Christopher A. Shuman, faculty, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, field and theoretical researcher in the West Antarctic Ice Stream area from the 1990s to the present.[1]
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edit- ^ "Shuman Glacier". Geographical names. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
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