Bowden firn field
| Bowden firn field | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 30 ′ S , 165 ° 0 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Lennox King Glacier | |
The Bowden firn field is an Antarctic firn field around 48 kilometers wide , which lies south of Mount Miller between the Queen Elizabeth Range and the Queen Alexandra chain .
It was examined in 1958 by the New Zealand group of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955–1958) and named after Charles Moore Bowden (1886–1972), chairman of the Ross Sea Committee to organize New Zealand's participation in this expedition.
Web links
- Bowden Névé in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bowden Névé on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 194 (English).
Western part of the BOWDEN NÉVÉ in the east of the map
Eastern part of the BOWDEN NÉVÉ in the west of the map
