Boomerang glacier
| Boomerang glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Deep Freeze Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 16 km | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 33 ′ S , 163 ° 54 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Browning Pass , Nansen Ice Cream Board | |
The Boomerang Glacier is a 16 km long glacier with a moderate gradient on the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows south from Mount Dickason in the Deep Freeze Range to Browning Pass on the north side of the Nansen Ice Table .
The northern group of the British Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) discovered it and named it after its shape reminiscent of a boomerang .
Web links
- Boomerang Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Boomerang Glacier on geographic.org (English)