Catspaw glacier
| Catspaw glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 43 ′ S , 161 ° 42 ′ E | |
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The Catspaw Glacier (from English catspaw 'cat's paw' ) is a small glacier in East Antarctica Victoria Land . It flows just west of the Stocking Glacier in a southerly direction from the slopes north of the Taylor Valley .
The glacier was given its descriptive name by the British geographer Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880–1963), participant of the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913).
Web links
- Catspaw Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Catspaw Glacier on geographic.org (English)