Carlyon Glacier
| Carlyon Glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 79 ° 34 ′ S , 159 ° 50 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Ross Ice Shelf | |
The Carlyon Glacier is a large glacier on the Hillary Coast of Antarctica's Ross Dependency . It flows in an east-southeast direction from the eastern firn field of Mill Mountain to the Ross Ice Shelf , which it reaches at Cape Murray .
It was first mapped during the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958). The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after the New Zealand geodesist Roy Albert Carlyon (* 1932), a participant in the expedition.
Web links
- Carlyon Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Carlyon Glacier on geographic.org (English)