Marsh glacier
| Marsh glacier | ||
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 Map from 1964 with the Marsh Glacier in the middle |
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 112 km | |
| Coordinates | 82 ° 52 ′ S , 158 ° 30 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Nimrod Glacier | |
The Marsh Glacier is an approximately 112 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It flows in a northerly direction from the central polar plateau between the Miller Range and the Queen Elizabeth Range to the Nimrod Glacier .
The New Zealand group of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) discovered him and named him after the British surgeon George Walter Marsh (1925-1988), a member of the group.
Web links
- Marsh Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Marsh Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1001 (English).