Cassini glacier
Cassini glacier | ||
---|---|---|
location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Denton Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 77 ° 53 ′ S , 163 ° 48 ′ E | |
|
||
drainage | Blue Glacier |
The Cassini Glacier is a steep glacier in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . In the Denton Hills, it flows from Hobbs Ridge in a north-westerly direction between Goat Mountain and Bonne Glacier to Blue Glacier .
The glacier was named in 1993 by the New Zealand Geographic Board . It is named after the Cassini projection in the representation of maps developed by the French geodesist and astronomer César François Cassini de Thury (1714–1784).
Web links
- Cassini Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cassini Glacier on geographic.org (English)