Falkner Glacier
| Falkner Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Mountaineer Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Type | Valley glacier | |
| length | 6 km | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 44 '32 " S , 166 ° 1' 3" E | |
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| drainage | Lady Newnes Bay | |
The Falkner Glacier is a 6 km long and steep valley glacier in the Mountaineer Range of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows 3 km south of Oakley Glacier to the east and ends in the form of a floating glacier tongue in the Lady Newnes Bay on the Borchgrevink Coast .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2009 after Kelly Kenison Falkner (* 1960), Professor of Chemical Oceanography at Oregon State University , who has been Head of the Antarctic Integrated System Science Program (AISS) of the National Science Foundation since 2006 .
Web links
- Falkner Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Falkner Glacier on geographic.org (English)