Bowers Piedmont Glacier
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 BOWERS PIEDMONT GLACIER in the southern part of the map sheet |
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| surface | 64 km² (roughly estimated) | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| drainage | McMurdo Sound | |
The Bowers Piedmont Glacier is a foreland glacier on the Scott Coast in East Antarctic Victoria Land . With an expansion of around 64 square kilometers, the area occupies south of the New Harbor and flows together with the Blue Glacier on its south side .
It was discovered by participants in the Discovery Expedition (1901–1904) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott , but was only named after Henry Bowers (1983–1912) after Scott's Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) , who died on this expedition on the march back from the South Pole to the base camp together with Scott and three other companions.
Web links
- Bowes Piedmont Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bowers Piedmont Glacier on geographic.org (English)