Ferrar glacier

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Ferrar glacier
Ferrar Glacier, Antarctica 2.jpg
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Transantarctic Mountains
length 56 km
Coordinates 77 ° 46 ′  S , 163 ° 0 ′  E Coordinates: 77 ° 46 ′  S , 163 ° 0 ′  E
Ferrar Glacier (Antarctica)
Ferrar glacier
drainage New Harbor

The Ferrar Glacier is an approximately 56 km long glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows from the Polar Plateau west of the Royal Society Range to at the Scott Coast lying New Harbor at McMurdo Sound . The glacier is connected to Taylor Glacier , from where it continues east along the south side of the Kukri Hills to New Harbor.

The glacier was discovered by participants in the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . It is named after Hartley Travers Ferrar (1879–1932), the geologist on this research trip .

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Commons : Ferrar Glacier  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Topographic map of the Antarctic Dry Valleys , Ferrar Glacier in the lower half