Lennox King Glacier
| Lennox King Glacier | ||
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 Card sheet with the LENNOX-KING GLACIER |
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| length | 65 km | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 25 ′ S , 168 ° 0 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Ross Ice Shelf | |
The Lennox King Glacier is a 65 km long glacier on the Shackleton Coast of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It flows from the Bowden Firnfeld in a north-easterly direction between the Holland Range and the Queen Alexandra chain and flows into the Ross Ice Shelf via Richards Inlet .
The glacier was named after Lieutenant Commander James Lennox-King (1914-2002) of the Royal New Zealand Navy , head of Scott Base in 1960 , by participants in a 1959-1960 campaign as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition .
Web links
- Lennox-King Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lennox-King Glacier on geographic.org (English)