Matusevich glacier
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 Glacier tongue of the Matusevich glacier (left) in the area where it flows into Lauritzen Bay |
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 80 km | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 20 ′ S , 157 ° 27 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Lauritzen Bay | |
The Matusevich Glacier ( Russian Ледник Матусевича Lednik Matusewitscha ) is a large, approximately 80 km long glacier with a pronounced, approximately 30 km long glacier tongue ( 69 ° 5 ′ S , 157 ° 15 ′ E ), on the Oates coast of the East Antarctic Viktorialands . It flows between the Lasarew Mountains and the northwestern end of the Wilson Hills and flows into Lauritzen Bay .
The area was first photographed by the United States Navy during Operation Highjump (1946–1947) . This was followed by investigations by the 2nd Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956-1958) and the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions of 1959 and 1962. The participants of the Soviet expedition named him after the hydrograph and geodesist Nikolai Matusewitsch (1879-1950). The glacier tongue protruding into the Somow Sea was bypassed by the research vessel Magga Dan on the trip led by Phillip Law in 1959 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions. Measurements on February 21st showed a draft of the glacier tongue of 300 Fathoms or a little more than 548 meters.
Web links
- Matusevich Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Matusevich Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Matusevich Glacier Tongue on geographic.org (accessed November 30, 2015).