Dawson Lambton Glacier
| Dawson Lambton Glacier | ||
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| location | Coatsland , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 8 ′ S , 26 ° 43 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Weddell Sea | |
The Dawson-Lambton Glacier ( named the Dawson-Lambton Ice Stream in the UK between 1980 and 1987 ) is a heavily furrowed glacier in the East Antarctic Coatsland . On the Luitpold coast , it flows into the southeastern section of the Weddell Sea immediately west of the Brunt Ice Shelf .
Participants in the endurance expedition (1914–1917) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton discovered the glacier in January 1915. Shackleton named it after Elizabeth Dawson-Lambton (1836 – unknown), a sponsor of this and Shackleton's Nimrod expedition (1907– 1909).
Web links
- Dawson-Lambton Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dawson-Lambton Glacier on geographic.org (English)