Icebreaker Glacier
| Icebreaker Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Mountaineer Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 37 ′ S , 166 ° 10 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Lady Newnes Bay , Ross Sea | |
The Icebreaker Glacier is a large valley glacier in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . It flows 16 km northeast of Mount Monteagle from the Mountaineer Range in a southeast direction to Lady Newnes Bay . Below Hermes Point , it meets the ice masses of the Fitzgerald Glacier .
Participants of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1958-1959) named the glacier in memory of the stakes of icebreakers ( English icebreaker ) of the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard in the service of exploration of Antarctica .
Web links
- Icebreaker Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Icebreaker Glacier on geographic.org (English)