Charybdis glacier
| Charybdis glacier | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 25 ′ S , 67 ° 30 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Amery Ice Shelf | |
The Charybdis Glacier is a large glacier in Mac Robertson Land, East Antarctica . In the Prince Charles Mountains, it flows northeast between the Porthos Range and the Aramis Range to the west of the Amery Ice Shelf .
Participants of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions led by the Australian mountaineer William Gordon Bewsher (1924-2012) discovered him in December 1956 and named him because of the inhospitable nature of the area after Charybdis , a sea monster from Greek mythology.
Web links
- Charybdis Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Charybdis Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Bewsher, William Gordon (Bill) (1924-2012) . Entry in the Encyclopedia of Australian Science (accessed January 5, 2016).