Koettlitz-Firnfeld
| Koettlitz-Firnfeld | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| width | Max. 11 km | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 27 ′ S , 163 ° 0 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Koettlitz glacier | |
The Koettlitz Firn Field is a roughly square and 11 km wide firn field in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the southern Royal Society Range it is at the head of the Koettlitz Glacier . To the west and south it is bounded by Mount Talmadge , Mount Rees and Mount Cocks , to the east by Mount Morning .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1994 after the glacier of the same name. Its namesake is Reginald Koettlitz (1861-1916), doctor and botanist on the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott .
Web links
- Koettlitz Névé in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Koettlitz Névé on geographic.org (English)