Irving Glacier
| Irving Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Convoy Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 13 ′ S , 160 ° 16 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Odell glacier | |
The Irving Glacier is a glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Convoy Range it flows in a north-westerly direction between the Coombs Hills and the Wyandot Ridge to the Odell Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1999 after Ronald Karl Irving (1912-1997), captain of the transport ship USS Wyandot in the fourth Operation Deep Freeze between 1958 and 1959.
Web links
- Irving Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Irving Glacier on geographic.org (English)