Bonne glacier
| Bonne glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Denton Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 53 ′ S , 163 ° 49 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Blue Glacier | |
The Bonne Glacier is a steep glacier in East Antarctica Victoria Land . It flows from Hobbs Ridge 1.5 km west-southwest of Hobbs Peak in a north-westerly direction to the Blue Glacier .
The glacier was named in 1993 by the New Zealand Geographic Board . It is named after the Bonnean projection in the representation of maps that the French cartographer and mathematician Rigobert Bonne (1727–1795) developed in 1752.
Web links
- Bonne Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bonne Glacier on geographic.org (English)