Le Couteur Glacier
| Le Couteur Glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 24 km | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 42 ′ S , 170 ° 30 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Ross Ice Shelf | |
The Le Couteur Glacier is a roughly 24 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it flows from the northwest slopes of Mount Hall and Mount Daniel along the western flank of the Lillie Range to the Ross Ice Shelf on the Dufek Coast .
The southern group of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1963-1964) named it after the New Zealand geologist Peter C. Le Couteur, a participant in the New Zealand Federated Mountain Club Antarctic Expedition (1962-1963).
Web links
- Le Couteur Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Le Couteur Glacier on geographic.org (English)