Geoid glacier
| Geoid glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Thomas Heights , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 48 ′ S , 163 ° 47 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Blue Glacier | |
The Geoid Glacier is a glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . From Thomas Heights it flows south west of Ellipsoid Hill to Blue Glacier .
The glacier is one of a series of geographic objects that the New Zealand Geographic Board named in 1993 using terms from geodesy and mathematics . It is named after the geoid .
Web links
- Geoid Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Geoid Glacier on geographic.org (English)