Crevasse Valley Glacier
| Crevasse Valley Glacier | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Ford Ranges | |
| length | 50 km | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 46 ′ S , 145 ° 30 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Sulzberger Ice Shelf | |
 Guest Peninsula map from 1969 (reprinted 1988), Crevasse Valley Glacier in the southeastern quarter |
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The Crevasse Valley Glacier (English for Spaltentalgletscher ) is a wide and around 50 km long glacier in the West Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . In the Ford Ranges it flows in a west-northwest direction between the Chester Mountains and Saunders Mountain to the Sulzberger Ice Shelf .
He was discovered in 1934 by a sled team of the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . It was through this that it got its descriptive name.
Web links
- Crevasse Valley Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Crevasse Valley Glacier on geographic.org (English)