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Goodell Glacier
Map showing the location of Goodell Glacier
Map showing the location of Goodell Glacier
Location in Antarctica
Location Ellsworth Land
Coordinates 72°55′00″S 88°30′00″W / 72.91667°S 88.50000°W / -72.91667; -88.50000
Length 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi)
Thickness unknown
Terminus Williams Ice Stream
Status unknown

Goodell Glacier (72°55′S 88°30′W / 72.917°S 88.500°W / -72.917; -88.500) is a glacier about 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) long flowing east and north from Fletcher Peninsula into the Williams Ice Stream, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Janice G. Goodell of the United States Geological Survey, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, a support member of the Glacier Studies Project Team from the early 1990s onwards.

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