Chinn glacier

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Chinn glacier
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Olympus Range , Transantarctic Mountains
length 1.1 km
Coordinates 77 ° 28 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 77 ° 28 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  E
Chinn Glacier (Antarctica)
Chinn glacier

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 .

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