Ball Glacier (Viktorialand)
| Ball Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 11 km | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 3 ′ S , 162 ° 50 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Blue Glacier | |
The Ball Glacier is an 11 km long glacier in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . In the Royal Society Range it flows from the area between Mount Lister and Mount Hooker in a northeasterly direction between the ridges Craw Ridge and Tasman Ridge to the Blue Glacier .
The New Zealand Geographic Board named it after the New Zealand climber Gary Ball (1953-1993), who climbed Mount Lister as part of an Italian team in a campaign lasting from 1976 to 1977, camping on this glacier and from 1980 to 1981 with the team of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program , which explored the area around this glacier.
Web links
- Ball Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ball Glacier on geographic.org (English)