Gauss glacier
| Gauss glacier | ||
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| location | Viktorialand , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 58 ′ S , 163 ° 45 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Blue Glacier | |
The Gauss Glacier is a steep glacier in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . It flows west from the southwest end of Hobbs Ridge on the north side of Datum Peak to the Blue Glacier .
The New Zealand Geographic Board named it in 1993 after the German mathematician and astronomer Carl Friedrich Gauß (1777–1855).
Web links
- Gauss Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gauss Glacier on geographic.org (English)