Dahe glacier
| Dahe glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Saint Johns Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 15 ′ S , 161 ° 51 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Debenham Glacier | |
The Dahe Glacier is a glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows in the Saint Johns Range in a north-easterly direction between the mountain ridges Stone Ridge and Wise Ridge . It ends as a hanging glacier on a 200 m high cliff above the head end of the Debenham Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2005 after Qin Dahe (* 1947), head of the Chinese Meteorological Office between 2003 and 2007 and the Great Wall Station in the 1980s, who was involved in a study of the glacier flow between the Zhongshan station and the Dome A was involved between 1996 and 2002.
Web links
- Dahe Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dahe Glacier on geographic.org (English)