Beaver Glacier (Queen Alexandra chain)
Beaver Glacier | ||
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Map with the Beaver Glacier (middle) |
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location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
Mountains | Queen Alexandra Chain , Transantarctic Mountains | |
length | 24 km | |
Coordinates | 83 ° 24 ′ S , 169 ° 30 ′ E | |
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drainage | Ross Ice Shelf |
The Beaver Glacier is a 15 miles long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Alexandra Range of the Transantarctic Mountains , it flows north-west of Mount Fox to Ross Ice Shelf , which he at the Shackleton Coast located McCann Point reached.
Participants of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1959-1960) named him after the DHC-2 Beaver with the name City of Auckland , which crashed on January 15, 1960 in the area of the glacier.
Web links
- Beaver Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Beaver Glacier on geographic.org (English)