Burrows Glacier
| Burrows Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Denton Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 2 ′ S , 163 ° 56 ′ E | |
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The Burrows Glacier is a hanging glacier in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . In the Denton Hills , it is on the south face of the Garwood Valley across from the Garwood Glacier . The glacier provides water and nutrients to the Nostoc colonies below.
The New Zealand Geographic Board named him in 2002 after Colin Burrows (1931-2014), a lecturer in the Department of Botany and Microbial Sciences at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand .
Web links
- Burrows Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Burrows Glacier on geographic.org (English)