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Sowers Glacier
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Location of Sentinel Range in Western Antarctica
Map showing the location of Sowers Glacier
Map showing the location of Sowers Glacier
Location in Antarctica
Type tributary
Location Ellsworth Land
Coordinates 78°37′00″S 84°59′00″W / 78.61667°S 84.98333°W / -78.61667; -84.98333
Thickness unknown
Terminus Thomas Glacier
Status unknown
Vinson-Map
Central and southern Sentinel Range map

Sowers Glacier (78°37′S 84°59′W / 78.617°S 84.983°W / -78.617; -84.983) is a glacier that flows from the prominent cirque on the east side of Craddock Massif and continues between Willis Ridge on the north, and Sanchez Peak and Stolnik Peak on the south, to join Thomas Glacier north of Mount Osborne, in the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica.

The glacier was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 2006 after Todd A. Sowers, Environment Institute, Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University; United States Antarctic Program (USAP) investigator of climate change and abrupt climate change, using isotopes and atmospheric gases, including greenhouse gases, from the ice core record, 1991–2006.

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