Helm Glacier
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location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
Mountains | Queen Elizabeth Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
length | 30 km | |
Coordinates | 83 ° 7 ′ S , 162 ° 30 ′ E | |
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drainage | Lowery Glacier |
The Helm Glacier is a 30 kilometer long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Elizabeth Range of the Transantarctic Mountains, it flows north to the Lowery Glacier , which it reaches immediately west of the Fazekas Hills .
Participants in the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961–1962) named him after Arthur Stanley Helm (* 1914), Secretary of the New Zealand Ross Sea Committee .
Web links
- Helm Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Helm Glacier on geographic.org (English)