Borchgrevink Glacier
| Borchgrevink Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Victory Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 4 ′ S , 168 ° 30 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Glacier Strait | |
The Borchgrevink Glacier is a large glacier in the Victory Mountains of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows in a southerly direction between the Malta Plateau and the Daniell Peninsula and flows directly south of Cape Jones in the form of a long glacier tongue ( 73 ° 21 ′ S , 168 ° 50 ′ E ) into the Glacier Strait of the Ross Sea .
Participants of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1957-1958) named them after the Norwegian polar explorer Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink (1864-1934), leader of the British Southern Cross Expedition (1898-1900), who on this research trip in February 1900 visited the seaward part of the glacier.
Web links
- Borchgrevink Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Borchgrevink Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Borchgrevink Glacier Tongue on geographic.org (English). Retrieved February 24, 2016.