Borns Glacier

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Borns Glacier
Borns Gl at the far western edge of the map sheet

Borns Gl at the far western edge of the map sheet

location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Kukri Hills , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 77 ° 47 ′  S , 162 ° 1 ′  E Coordinates: 77 ° 47 ′  S , 162 ° 1 ′  E
Borns Glacier (Antarctica)
Borns Glacier
drainage Taylor Valley
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The Borns Glacier is a glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Kukri Hills it flows west of Mount Coates in a northerly direction to the Taylor Valley .

Participants of the British Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) under the direction of the polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott mapped it. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him after the US geologist Harold William Borns Jr. of the University of Maine , who carried out surveys in the area of ​​the glacier from 1960 to 1961 as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program .

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