Cracktrack Glacier
| Cracktrack Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Homerun Range and Admiralty Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 40 ′ S , 166 ° 30 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Tucker Glacier | |
The Cracktrack Glacier is a glacier in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . From the center of the Homerun Range it flows westward into the upper section of the Tucker Glacier in the Admiralty Mountains .
The glacier was used by Robert H. Findlay's geological team as part of a 1981 to 1982 campaign of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program as an ascent route to the field firn field . It was named after the fact that the team tore the crawler belt of a snowmobile and had to be temporarily repaired.
Web links
- Crack Track Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cracktrack Glacier on geographic.org (English)