Byrd Firnfeld
| Byrd Firnfeld | ||
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| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 81 ° 0 ′ S , 154 ° 0 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Byrd glacier | |
 Map sheet Mount Olympus from 1964, BYRD NÉVÉ in the south |
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 Map sheet Wilhoite Nunataks from 1968, BYRD NÉVÉ in the north |
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The Byrd firn field is a large firn field at the head of the Byrd Glacier in the Transantarctic Mountains . The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd (1888-1957) based on the naming of the glacier of the same name .
Web links
- Byrd Névé in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Byrd Névé on geographic.org (English)