Chinn glacier
Chinn glacier | ||
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location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Olympus Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
length | 1.1 km | |
Coordinates | 77 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Chinn Glacier is a 1.1 km long and hanging glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Olympus Range, it flows from the south side of Mount Theseus to the north face of Wright Valley .
The New Zealand Geographic Board named him in 1998 after the New Zealand glaciologist Trevor J. H. Chinn (* 1937), who was active in several campaigns between 1974 and 1993 in the Antarctic dry valleys .
Web links
- Chinn Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Chinn Glacier on geographic.org (English)