Albanus Glacier
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 Topographic map of the Albanus Glacier (bottom left) |
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| location | Marie-Byrd-Land , West Antarctica (politically: Ross Dependency ) | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 40 km (roughly estimated) | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 52 ′ S , 151 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Scott Glacier | |
The Albanus Glacier is a glacier about 40 km in length that flows west along the south side of the Tapley Mountains and joins the Scott Glacier north of Mount Zanuck in the Queen Maud Mountains .
It was discovered by the geological team of the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) led by Quin Blackburn (1900-1981) led by the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . The glacier is named after the entrepreneur Albanus Phillips Jr. (1902–1970), a sponsor of this and Byrd's first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930).
Web links
- Albanus Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Albanus Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 20 (English).