Arriens Glacier
| Arriens Glacier | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Mawson Escarpment | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 28 ′ S , 68 ° 24 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Lambert Glacier | |
The Arriens Glacier is a small glacier in Mac Robertson Land, East Antarctica . It flows south of Casey Point in Mawson Escarpment in a westerly direction to the Lambert Glacier .
The glacier was mapped using aerial photographs taken by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) in 1956, 1960 and 1973. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after the Australian geologist Peter Arriens, geochronologist on the ANARE team in 1973 worked in the Prince Charles Mountains .
Web links
- Arriens Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Arriens Glacier on geographic.org (English)