Glacier Strait
Glacier Strait | ||
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The icy Glacier Strait off Coulman Island (February 2020) | ||
Connects waters | Ross Sea | |
with water | Lady Newnes Bay | |
Separates land mass | Borchgrevink Coast , Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
of land mass | Coulman Island | |
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Geographical location | 73 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ S , 169 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Map with Glacier Strait (right of center) |
The Glacier Strait is a strait that extends north-south off the Borchgrevink coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land. It separates the in the Ross Sea lying Coulman Island in the east of Cape Jones and glacier tongues of Borchgrevink- and Mariner Glacier in the West. It leads from the Ross Sea in the north to Lady Newnes Bay in the south and southwest.
At the suggestion of the New Zealand geodesist Malcolm Roding James Ford (1939-1996) it was named after the two glacier tongues and in honor of the icebreaker USS Glacier , on which Ford stayed in February 1965.
Web links
- Glacier Strait in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Glacier Strait on geographic.org (English)