Backstairs Passage Glacier
| Backstairs Passage Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Albert Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 4 km | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| drainage | Ross Sea | |
The Backstairs-Passage-Glacier (from English backstair , “ backstairs ” and “ passage ”) is a glacier about 4 km in length in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Prince Albert Mountains it flows from the northern flank of Mount Crummer in an easterly direction to the Ross Sea .
The so-called Northern Group of the Nimrod Expedition (1907–1909) used the glacier in search of the location of the Antarctic magnetic pole as an ascent route to the Larsen Glacier and on to the northern polar plateau . He was named by the Australian geologist Edgeworth David , a member of the three-person northern group, as an ironic allusion to the inhospitable appearance of servants.
See also
Web links
- Backstairs Passage Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Backstairs Passage Glacier on geographic.org (English)
- Backstairs Passage Glacier. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 50 (English)