Dun Glacier
| Dun Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Kukri Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 48 ′ S , 162 ° 14 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Ferrar glacier | |
The Dun Glacier is a small and steep glacier in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . On the southern slope of the Kukri Hills, it flows halfway between Mount Coates and Sentinel Peak to the Ferrar Glacier .
The Australian geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880-1963), head of the western group in the British Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913), named him. The meaning or the namesake are not passed down.
Web links
- Dun Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dun Glacier on geographic.org (English)