Marr glacier
| Marr glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Kukri Hills and Taylor Valley , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 43 ′ S , 162 ° 44 ′ E | |
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The Marr Glacier is a glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows 3 km west of Goldman Glacier from the Kukri Hills in a northerly direction into the Taylor Valley .
The British geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880–1963), participant in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) under the direction of the polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott , mapped it and named the glacier after the British geologist John Edward Marr (1857–1933) ).
Web links
- Marr Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Marr Glacier on geographic.org (English)