Lowery Glacier
| Lowery Glacier | ||
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 Map sheet with LOWERY GLACIER |
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Elizabeth Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 100 km | |
| Coordinates | 82 ° 35 ′ S , 163 ° 15 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Nimrod Glacier | |
The Lowery Glacier is a 100 km long glacier not far from the Shackleton Coast in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It flows from the Prince Andrew Plateau in a northerly direction on the eastern flank of the Queen Elizabeth Range to the Nimrod Glacier .
Participants in the New Zealand Geological and Topographical Survey Expedition (1959-1960) named him. It was named after James H. Lowery, an expedition member who was injured in an accident with a snowmobile on Cape Selborne in November 1959.
Web links
- Lowery Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lowery Glacier on geographic.org (English)