Marston Glacier
| Marston Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 54 ′ S , 162 ° 30 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Granite Harbor | |
The Marston Glacier is a glacier on the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows from Mount Marston and Doublefinger Peak in an easterly direction and flows into Granite Harbor between Dreikanter Head and the Kar plateau .
The New Zealand survey group of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) climbed the glacier in 1957 on the way to the mountain of the same name. Both geographical objects are named after the British painter and graphic artist George Marston (1882–1940), participant in the Nimrod expedition (1907–1909) and the endurance expedition (1914–1917) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton .
Web links
- Marston Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Marston Glacier on geographic.org (English)