Commonwealth Glacier
| Commonwealth Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Altitude range | 1900 m - | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 35 ′ S , 163 ° 19 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Fryxellsee | |
The Commonwealth Glacier is a glacier in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . It begins under the summit of Mount McLennan in the Asgard Range , where the Canada and Loftus Glaciers also begin, at an altitude of around 1900 meters. From there it flows southeast and ends west of Mount Coleman in the Taylor Valley , where it forms the eastern boundary of Lake Fryxell .
Participants in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott mapped it. Named the glacier after is of Australia ( Engl. Commonwealth of Australia ), the government had funded the expedition. With geologists Thomas Griffith Taylor and Frank Debenham , the team also included two Australians who had explored the glacier.
Web links
- Commonwealth Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Commonwealth Glacier on geographic.org (English)
- Images from the Commonwealth Glacier