Mackay Glacier

Mackay Glacier
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location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	76 ° 58 ′  S , 162 ° 0 ′  E Coordinates: 76 ° 58 ′  S , 162 ° 0 ′  E
drainage	Granite Harbor

The Mackay Glacier is a mighty Antarctic glacier that flows from the polar plateau in Victoria Land in an easterly direction between the Convoy and the Clare Range . On the Scott coast , in the southern area of Granite Harbor , it flows into the Ross Sea in the form of a prominent glacier tongue .

The glacier was discovered by participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton . It is named after the Scottish doctor Alistair Mackay (1878-1914), a participant in the expedition.

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Mackay Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Mackay Glacier on geographic.org (English)
• Mackay Glacier. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 200 (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Williamson Glacier Tongue in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
   Mackay Glacier Tongue on geographic.org (English)

Maps

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  Central part of the Mackay Glacier in the southeast of the map

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  Mackay Glacier tongue in the southwest of the map

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  Western part of the Mackay Glacier in the north of the map