Glacier Named After Prominent Geologist Renamed Following Sexual Harassment Scandal
The Me Too bm has toppledHollywood executives , pundit , andbureaucratssince it burst onto the aspect last year . Prompting a government federal agency to rename a geological landform , however , may be a first . Last week , the United States ’ Board on Geographic Names quietly decided that Antarctica ’s Marchant Glacier would now be called Matataua . A 7 mile - foresighted ice stream located in easterly Antarctica’sVictoria Land , the glacier was in the first place named after Boston University geologist David Marchant in 1994 ....