Joyce glacier
| Joyce glacier | ||
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| location | Viktorialand , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Denton Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 1 ′ S , 163 ° 42 ′ E | |
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| drainage | McMurdo Sound | |
The Joyce Glacier is a glacier in the Denton Hills of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows north of Péwé Peak from a firn field northeast of Catacomb Hill . The Garwood Glacier , located about 3 km up the valley from the end of the glacier, was a subsidiary glacier of the Joyce Glacier in times of greater glacial activity.
The New Zealand team that explored the Blue Glacier on the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) named it after the British polar explorer Ernest Joyce (1875-1940), participant of the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904), the Nimrod- Expedition (1907–1909) and the Ross Sea Party in the Endurance Expedition (1914–1917).
Web links
- Joyce Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Joyce Glacier on geographic.org (English)