Berwick Glacier
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 Location of the Berwick Glacier (top right) on the western flank of the Beardmore Glacier ( satellite image ) |
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| location | Ross Dependency , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Alexandra Chain , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 23 km (roughly estimated) | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 36 ′ S , 165 ° 45 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Beardmore Glacier | |
The Berwick Glacier is an Antarctic glacier about 23 kilometers in length that flows into the Beardmore Glacier in a southeastern direction between the Marshall Mountains and the Adams Mountains at Willey Point .
The glacier, which is confused with the Swinford Glacier in some early maps , was discovered by participants in the Nimrod Expedition (1907–1909) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton . It is named after the HMS Berwick , a ship on which the deputy head of the Nimrod expedition, Jameson Adams, served.
See also
Web links
- Berwick Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Berwick Glacier on geographic.org (English)
- Berwick Glacier. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 59 (English)