Cornwall Glacier (Ross Dependency)
| Cornwall Glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Elizabeth Range | |
| length | 16 km | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 4 ′ S , 162 ° 20 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Lowery Glacier | |
The Cornwall Glacier is a glacier in the East Antarctic Ross Dependency . It flows east in the Queen Elizabeth Range and joins the Lowery Glacier south of the Crowell Buttresses .
It was named by the northern group of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition from 1961 to 1962 after the English county of Cornwall .
Web links
- Cornwall Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cornwall Glacier on geographic.org (English)