Blue Glacier
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 BLUE GLACIER flows into the southern area of the map sheet |
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 30 km | |
| width | Max. 6 km | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 50 ′ S , 164 ° 10 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Bowers Piedmont Glacier | |
The Blue Glacier ( English for Blue Glacier ) is a large, 30 km long and 3 to 6 km wide glacier on the Scott coast of East Antarctica Victoria Land . It flows into the Bowers-Piedmont Glacier around 16 km south of the New Harbor .
It was discovered by participants in the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott , who named it after its blue color at the time of discovery.
Web links
- Blue Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Blue Glacier on geographic.org (English)