Bowden Glacier
| Bowden Glacier | ||
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 On the map sheet from 1959 (revised in 1988) the glacier southeast of the Salient Ridge is still unnamed |
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 8 ′ S , 163 ° 7 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Blue Glacier | |
The Bowden Glacier is a glacier in the Royal Society Range of the Transantarctic Mountains in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows along the southeast side of Salient Ridge in a northeastern direction to the Blue Glacier .
The New Zealand Geographic Board named him in 1994 after the New Zealand politician Charles Moore Bowden (1886-1972), chairman of the Ross Sea Committee to organize New Zealand's participation in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958).
Web links
- Bowden Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bowden Glacier on geographic.org (English)