Lillie Glacier

Lillie Glacier
	Ob 'Bay with Lillie glacier tongue
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Transantarctic Mountains
length	160 km
width	Max. 16 km
Coordinates	70 ° 45 ′ S , 163 ° 55 ′ E Coordinates: 70 ° 45 ′ S , 163 ° 55 ′ E
drainage	Ob 'Bay ( Somow Lake )
	Southern part of the glacier east of the Bowers Mountains

The Lillie Glacier is a large glacier located in the Oatesland in the north of the East Antarctic Victoria Land between the Concord and Anare Mountains in the east and the Bowers Mountains in the west. It is about 160 kilometers long and 16 kilometers wide. Its foothills pour into Ob 'Bay and form the Lillie glacier tongue there ( 70 ° 34 ′ S , 163 ° 48 ′ E ). -70.5666667 163.8

The glacier tongue was discovered by participants in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott , who named it after the biologist Dennis Gascoigne Lillie (1888-1963), a member of the expedition. The inland part of the glacier was explored by participants in the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1962 on the basis of photos from Operation Highjump (1946–1947) of the United States Navy . The United States Geological Survey created maps of the area using surveys and aerial photographs between 1960 and 1962.

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