Hearfield Glacier
| Hearfield Glacier | ||
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| location | Viktorialand , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Victory Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 30 km | |
| width | Max. 3 km | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 26 ′ S , 167 ° 42 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Trafalgar Glacier | |
The Hearfield Glacier is 30 km long and 3 km wide glacier in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Victory Mountains, it flows in an east-southeast direction along the southern flank of the Cartographers Range to the Trafalgar Glacier , which it reaches immediately east of Aldridge Peak .
Members of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1957-1958) named him after the New Zealand mountaineer Brian Hearfield (* 1935), who took part in the research trip and was also active in the area of the Tucker Glacier .
Web links
- Hearfield Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hearfield Glacier on geographic.org (English)