Larsen Glacier
| Larsen Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Albert Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 6 ′ S , 162 ° 28 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Ross Sea | |
The Larsen Glacier is a glacier on the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows from the Reeves Firnfeld in a south-easterly direction at the foot of Mount Larsen through the Prince Albert Mountains and flows south of Mount Crummer into the Ross Sea .
Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered him. It is named after the Norwegian Carl Anton Larsen (1860-1924), a participant in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901-1903).
See also
Web links
- Larsen Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Larsen Glacier on geographic.org (English)
- Larsen Glacier. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, pp. 187–188 (English)