Leap Year Glacier
| Leap Year Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Bowers Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 42 ′ S , 164 ° 15 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Black glacier | |
The Leap Year Glacier ( English for leap year -Gletscher is) a glacier in the Bowers Mountains of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows southeast to the Black Glacier between the Molar Massif and Mount Stirling .
The northern group of a 1963 to 1964 campaign as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named him so after members of the group reached this glacier on New Year's Day of the 1964 leap year after climbing the Sledgers Glacier .
Web links
- Leap Year Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Leap Year Glacier on geographic.org (English)