Egeberg Glacier
| Egeberg Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 34 ′ S , 169 ° 50 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Robertson Bay | |
The Egeberg Glacier is a small glacier on the Pennell Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows between the Scott Keltie Glacier and the Dugdale Glacier in the west side of Robertson Bay .
Participants in the Southern Cross Expedition (1898–1900) led by the Norwegian polar explorer Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink mapped it for the first time. Borchgrevink named the glacier after the Norwegian businessman Westye Martinus Egeberg (1805–1898).
Web links
- Egeberg Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Egeberg Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 481 (English).