Mansergh snow field
| Mansergh snow field | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 82 ° 1 ′ S , 159 ° 50 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Starshot glacier | |
The Mansergh Snowfield is a snowfield in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Churchill Mountains , it lies between the Surveyors Range and the Holyoake Range and feeds the Starshot Glacier .
The crew to explore the Holyoake Range, the Cobham Range and the Queen Elizabeth Range in the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition , which lasted from 1964 to 1965, named it after Dennis Mansergh of the University of Auckland , a geologist on the team.
Web links
- Mansergh Snowfield in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mansergh Snowfield on geographic.org (English)