Frank Newnes Glacier
| Frank Newnes Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 28 ′ S , 169 ° 19 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Pressure Bay | |
The Frank Newnes Glacier is a short glacier on the Pennell Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows into the head end of Pressure 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 Frank Hilliard Newnes (1876–1955), the only son of the publisher George Newnes (1851–1910), sponsor of the research trip.
Web links
- Frank Newnes Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Frank Newnes Glacier on geographic.org (English)