Green Glacier (Haskell Ridge)
| Green Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Darwin Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 79 ° 43 ′ S , 156 ° 10 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Darwin glacier | |
The Green Glacier (English for Green Glacier ) is a glacier in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Darwin Mountains it flows along the western flank of the Haskell Ridge in a northerly direction and flows into the Darwin Glacier .
Members of the team that explored the Darwin Glacier on the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) named it descriptively after the greenish color of the glacial ice on its surface.
Web links
- Green Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Green Glacier on geographic.org (English)