Manna glacier
| Manna glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Wilson Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 45 ′ S , 159 ° 40 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Gillett Ice Shelf | |
The Manna Glacier is a wide glacier in the north of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Wilson Hills it flows north of Stevenson Bluff and Mount Steele in a northeasterly direction into the eastern section of the Gillett Ice Shelf on the Oates coast .
The northern group of a campaign from 1963 to 1964 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named it after the biblical heavenly bread manna . It is named after the air supply to the crew, which Bernard Fergusson , then Governor General of New Zealand , had arranged.
Web links
- Manna Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Manna Glacier on geographic.org (English)