MacKinnon Glacier
| MacKinnon Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Bowers Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 32 ' S , 163 ° 13' E | |
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| drainage | Sledgers Glacier | |
The MacKinnon Glacier is a glacier in the Bowers Mountains of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Lanterman Range, it flows north along the western flank of Reilly Ridge to Sledgers Glacier .
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1983 after geologist David Ironside MacKinnon, who worked in the area between 1974 and 1975 as part of a campaign by the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program .
Web links
- MacKinnon Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- MacKinnon Glacier on geographic.org (English)