Blaiklock glacier
| Blaiklock glacier | ||
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| location | Coatsland , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Shackleton Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 25.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 35 ′ S , 29 ° 40 ′ W | |
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The Blaiklock Glacier is a glacier in the East Antarctic Coatsland . It flows in the Shackleton Range from Turnpike Bluff first north, then northwest to Mount Provender and Mount Lowe .
It was first mapped in 1957 by participants in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) led by British polar explorer Vivian Fuchs . It is named after Kenneth Viktor Blaiklock (* 1927), head of the advance team of the expedition and geodesist of the team, who crossed the Antarctic continent for the first time by land during the research trip .
Web links
- Blaiklock Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Blaiklock Glacier on geographic.org (English)