Keltie glacier
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 Location of the Keltie Glacier (top left) on the eastern flank of the Beardmore Glacier ( satellite image ) |
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Commonwealth Range , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 48 km | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 53 ′ S , 170 ° 20 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Beardmore Glacier | |
The Keltie Glacier is a 48 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It flows from the Pain Firnfield in a south-westerly direction around the foothills of the Commonwealth Range and then in a north-westerly direction at Ranfurly Point to the Beardmore Glacier .
Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907–1909) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton discovered him. Shackleton named him after John Scott Keltie (1840-1927), the secretary of the Royal Geographical Society from 1892 to 1915.
See also
Web links
- Keltie Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Keltie Glacier on geographic.org (English)
- Keltie Glacier. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 177 (English)