Hamilton Glacier (Queen Elizabeth Range)
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 Topographic map (1: 250,000) with the Hamilton Glacier (left of center) |
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Elizabeth Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 82 ° 40 ′ S , 160 ° 15 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Nimrod Glacier | |
The Hamilton Glacier is a 19 km glacier in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Queen Elizabeth Range of the Transantarctic Mountains, it flows from the northwest slopes of the Markham Plateau in a northerly direction to the Nimrod Glacier .
The northern group of the 1960 to 1961 campaign as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named him after William Maxwell Hamilton (1909-1992) of the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR).
Web links
- Hamilton Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hamilton Glacier on geographic.org (English)