Gray glacier
Gray glacier | ||
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location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
length | 10 km | |
Coordinates | 82 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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drainage | Nimrod Glacier |
The Gray Glacier is a 10 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Cobham Range of the Churchill Mountains it flows south of the Tarakanov Ridge in a southeastern direction and flows into the Nimrod Glacier after the confluence with the Prinz Philip Glacier .
Participants in a 1964-1965 campaign as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named him after M. Gray, postal clerk and deputy radio operator at Scott Base in 1965.
Web links
- Gray Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gray Glacier on geographic.org (English)