Helen Glacier
| Helen Glacier | ||
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| location | Queen Marie Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 40 ′ S , 93 ° 55 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Mawson Lake , Southern Ocean | |
The Helen Glacier is a glacier in the East Antarctic Queen Marie Land that is criss-crossed by glacier fractures and crevasses . It flows in the form of a floating glacial tongue ( 66 ° 33 ' S , 94 ° 0' O ) in the Mawsonsee .
The team from the West Base on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered him in November 1912. Mawson named him after the first name of the wife of the Australian entrepreneur Robert Lucas-Tooth (1844-1915), one of the sponsors of the expedition.
Web links
- Helen Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Helen Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helen Glacier Tongue on geographic.org (accessed September 9, 2017)