Holdsworth Glacier
| Holdsworth Glacier | ||
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| location | Marie-Byrd-Land , West Antarctica (politically: Ross Dependency ) | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 13 km | |
| Coordinates | 86 ° 30 ′ S , 154 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Bartlett Glacier | |
The Holdsworth Glacier is an approximately 13 km long glacier in Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it flows northeast from the Fuller Dome into the southeast flank of the Bartlett Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after the New Zealand geologist Gerald Holdsworth (* 1939), who worked at McMurdo Station between 1965 and 1966 .
Web links
- Holdsworth Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Holdsworth Glacier on geographic.org (English)