Gamble Glacier
| Gamble Glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 81 ° 6 ′ S , 156 ° 45 ′ E | |
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The Gamble Glacier is a glacier in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Churchill Mountains it flows from the Chapman Snowfield in a north-westerly direction between the Green Nunatak in the south-west and the Keating massif in the north-east.
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the glacier on February 27, 2003 after the Irish geologist John Alan Gamble of the Victoria University of Wellington , who carried out extensive studies on the occurrence of xenolites at Cape Crozier and Cape Bird on the in the 1980s Ross Island and took part in the New Zealand-British-US project to explore the volcanoes in Marie Byrd Land ( West Antarctic Volcano Exploration , 1989-1992).
Web links
- Gamble Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gamble Glacier on geographic.org (English)