Gran Glacier
| Gran Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 56 ′ S , 161 ° 14 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Mackay Glacier | |
The Gran Glacier is a glacier in Victoria Land, East Antarctica . It flows from the shared watershed with the northeast-facing Benson Glacier in a southerly direction to the Mackay Glacier , which it reaches between Mount Gran and Mount Woolnough .
The Northern New Zealand group of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955–1958), which visited the area of the glacier in November 1957, named it after Tryggve Gran (1888–1980), a Norwegian participant in the British Terra- Nova Expedition (1910-1913).
Web links
- Gran Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gran Glacier on geographic.org (English)