Double Curtain Glacier
| Double Curtain Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Kukri Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 39 ′ S , 163 ° 31 ′ E | |
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| drainage | New Harbor | |
The Double Curtain Glacier (English for double curtain glacier ) is a small glacier in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows from the southern slope of the Kukri Hills immediately southwest of Mount Barnes to the mouth of the Ferrar Glacier in the New Harbor on McMurdo Sound .
Participants in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) led by British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott mapped it and gave it its descriptive name.
Web links
- Double Curtain Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Double Curtain Glacier on geographic.org (English)