Backwater Glacier
| Backwater Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Eisenhower Range Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 7 km | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Backwater Glacier ( English for tributaries glacier is) a 7km valley glaciers in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . At the southern end of the Eisenhower Range, it lies between the Anderton and Carnein glaciers .
The New Zealand glaciologist Trevor J. H. Chinn (* 1937) named it in 1985. The glacier owes its descriptive name to the fact that it is fed by the ice masses of the much larger Reeves Glacier .
Web links
- Backwater Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)