Dennistoun Glacier
| Dennistoun Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Admiralty Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 80 km | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 11 ′ S , 168 ° 0 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Somow Lake , Southern Ocean | |
The Dennistoun Glacier is a 80 km long glacier in East Antarctica Victoria Land . In the Admiralty Mountains, it drains the northern slopes of Mount Black Prince and Mount Royalist . From there it flows in a north-westerly direction between the Lyttelton Range and the Dunedin Range , flows around the latter in an easterly direction and flows into the Somow Sea on the Pennell coast south of Cape Scott .
The coastal foothills of the glacier were mapped between 1911 and 1912 by the northern group of the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) led by Victor Campbell (1875-1956 ) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . It is named after the New Zealand mountaineer James Robert Dennistoun (1883-1916), a participant in this expedition who was responsible for looking after the mules on board the ship Terra Nova . The entire extent of the glacier was mapped by the United States Geological Survey based on its own measurements and aerial photographs by the United States Navy from 1960 to 1963. It was erroneously assigned the identity of the Fowlie Glacier , which is actually a subsidiary glacier of the Dennistoun Glacier .
Web links
- Dennistoun Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dennistoun Glacier on geographic.org (English)