Mason Glacier
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Topographic map of the Worcester Range (bottom right) with the Mason Glacier |
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location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Worcester Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 78 ° 53 ' S , 161 ° 41' E | |
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drainage | Skelton Glacier |
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.
Web links
- Mason Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mason Glacier on geographic.org (English)