Evans firn field

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Evans firn field
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location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 72 ° 45 ′  S , 164 ° 30 ′  E Coordinates: 72 ° 45 ′  S , 164 ° 30 ′  E
Evans Firn Field (Antarctica)
Evans firn field
drainage various glaciers
Map of the Evans Firnfield from 1967, surrounded by Freyberg Mountains, Victory Mountains, The Pleiades, Mesa Range and the Monument Nunatakkern

Map of the Evans Firnfield from 1967, surrounded by Freyberg Mountains , Victory Mountains , The Pleiades , Mesa Range and the Monument Nunatakkern

The Evans firn field is a large firn field in northern Victoria Land , which feeds the Tucker , Mariner , Aviator , Rennick and Lillie glaciers , among others .

The northern group of a campaign carried out from 1963 to 1964 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named it after Petty Officer Edgar Evans (1876-1912), a participant in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . Evans, like Scott and three other companions later, was killed on this expedition on the way back from the geographic South Pole.

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