Carryer glacier
| Carryer glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Bowers Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 20 km | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 17 ′ S , 162 ° 38 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Rennick Glacier | |
The Carryer Glacier is a roughly 20 km long, strongly fissured glacier in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows from the central part of the Bowers Mountains to the Rennick Glacier , which it reaches between Mount Soza and Mount Gow .
The northern group of a 1963-1964 campaign as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named him after the geologist Simon John Carryer, a member of the group.
Web links
- Carryer Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Carryer Glacier on geographic.org (English)