Mason Glacier

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Mason Glacier
Topographic map of the Worcester Range (bottom right) with the Mason Glacier

Topographic map of the Worcester Range (bottom right) with the Mason Glacier

location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Worcester Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 78 ° 53 '  S , 161 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 78 ° 53 '  S , 161 ° 41'  E
Mason Glacier (Antarctica)
Mason Glacier
drainage Skelton Glacier
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The Mason Glacier is a glacier in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . It flows from the eastern slopes of the Worcester Range immediately south of Bareface Bluff in an easterly direction to the Skelton Glacier .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the glacier in 1965 after the US-American biologist David T. Mason (* 1937), the Antarctic from 1961 to 1963 in two summers on the McMurdo station worked.

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