Liv glacier
| Liv glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 65 km | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 55 ′ S , 168 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Ross Ice Shelf | |
 Map of the Dufek coast with Shackleton and Liv glaciers |
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 Map showing the southern part of Shackleton and Liv glaciers |
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The Liv Glacier is a steep, approximately 65 km long valley glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It flows from the polar plateau southeast of Barnum Peak in a northerly direction through the Queen Maud Mountains to the Ross Ice Shelf , which it reaches between the Mayer Crags and the Duncan Mountains on the Dufek coast .
The Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen discovered him in 1911 while marching to the geographic South Pole as part of his Antarctic expedition (1910–1912). He named it after Liv Nansen (1893-1959), the eldest daughter of the Norwegian polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen .
Web links
- Liv Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Liv Glacier on geographic.org (English)