LaVergne Glacier
| LaVergne Glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 11 km | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 19 ′ S , 170 ° 45 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Liv glacier | |
The LaVergne Glacier is an 11 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains it flows in an easterly direction along the southern slopes of Seabee Heights and flows into the Liv Glacier immediately southwest of McKinley Nunatak .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Lieutenant Commander Cornelius B. de LaVergne, deputy commander of the United States Navy activities at McMurdo Station as part of Operation Deep Freeze in 1961.
Web links
- LaVergne Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- LaVergne Glacier on geographic.org (English)