Manning Glacier
| Manning Glacier | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Mawson Escarpment | |
| length | 16 km | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 10 ′ S , 68 ° 14 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Lambert Glacier | |
The Manning Glacier is a 16 km long glacier in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . From the Mawson Escarpment it flows between the Helmore and Greenall glaciers in a westerly direction to the Lambert glacier .
Aerial photographs of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) from 1956 and 1960 were used for mapping. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it after John Manning (* 1937), who led ANARE teams several times between 1969 and 1974 to survey the Prince Charles Mountains .
Web links
- Manning Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Manning Glacier on geographic.org (English)