David Glacier
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 Looking east over the David Glacier |
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 96 km (roughly estimated) | |
| surface | 1229 km² | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 19 ′ S , 162 ° 0 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Ross Sea | |
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The David Glacier is the largest glacier in the Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows from the northern polar plateau through the Prince Albert Mountains and ends between Cape Philippi and Cape Reynolds in the form of the Drygalski ice tongue protruding into the Ross Sea .
The glacier was discovered by participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton . It is named after the Australian geologist Tannatt William Edgeworth David (1858-1934), who led the Northern Group on this expedition to successfully search for the location of the Antarctic magnetic pole .
See also
Web links
- David Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- David Glacier on geographic.org (English)
- David Glacier. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 100 (English)