Kirkby Glacier
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 KIRKBY GLACIER on the topographic map sheet |
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Anare Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 30 km | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 43 ′ S , 166 ° 9 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Somow lake | |
The Kirkby Glacier is a 30 km long glacier on the Pennell coast of East Antarctica Victoria Land . It flows from the central Anare Mountains in a north-westerly direction to Somow Sea , which it reaches immediately north of Arthurson Bluff and northeast of Nielsen Fjord .
Participants of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions made the naming. It is named after Sydney Lorrimar Kirkby (* 1933), geodesist on the expedition ship Thala Dan , with which the coast off the glacier was explored in 1962.
Web links
- Kirkby Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kirkby Glacier on geographic.org (English)