Aviator Glacier
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 Map sheet Mount Murchison from 1967 with the Aviator Glacier between the Southern Cross Mountains and the Mountaineer Range |
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 100 km (roughly estimated) | |
| width | Max. 8 km (roughly estimated) | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 50 ′ S , 165 ° 3 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Lady Newnes Bay | |
The Aviator Glacier is a large, more than 100 km long and about 8 km wide glacier that flows south from the polar plateau in northern Victoria Land along the western flank of the Mountaineer Range to Lady Newnes Bay , which it flows between Cape Sibbald and Hayes Head and where it ends in the form of a floating glacier tongue at 74 ° 0 ′ S , 165 ° 50 ′ E.
Captain William Michael Hawkes (1910–1994) of the United States Navy photographed the glacier on the historic first flight from New Zealand to McMurdo Sound on December 17, 1955. An attempt to explore it by helicopter and from land failed in December 1958 in a 1958-1959 campaign as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition after the icebreaker USS Glacier was damaged by ice pressure. The glacier is named in honor of the pilots (English: aviator ) who were involved in exploring and exploring Antarctica.
Web links
- Aviator Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Aviator Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aviator Glacier Tongue on geographic.org (English). Retrieved December 9, 2015.