Bowman Glacier
| Bowman Glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 64 km | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 34 ′ S , 162 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Ross Ice Shelf | |
The Bowman Glacier is about 64 km long and deep fissured glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It flows from the polar plateau between the Quarles Range and the Rawson Plateau in the Queen Maud Mountains to the Ross Ice Shelf , which it reaches immediately west of the confluence of the Amundsen Glacier .
He was discovered in December 1929 by the team around the geologist Laurence McKinley Gould (1896-1995) during the first Antarctic expedition (1928-1930) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . Byrd named the glacier after the American geographer Isaiah Bowman (1878-1950), director of the American Geographical Society from 1915 to 1935 and president of Johns Hopkins University from 1935 to 1949.
Web links
- Bowman Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bowman Glacier on geographic.org (English)