Creagh Glacier
| Creagh Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Quartermain Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 6 km | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Creagh Glacier is a 6 km long glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Quartermain Mountains belonging Wilkniss Mountains it represents the continuation of the Creagh-icefall is and flows around the Canoe Nunatak in the northeast.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1994 after the New Zealand clergyman Gerard James Creagh (1929-1994), who was pastor in 25 Antarctic summer campaigns at McMurdo Station in the Chapel of the Snows .
Web links
- Creagh Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Creagh Glacier on geographic.org (English)