Mawson Glacier

Mawson Glacier
MAWSON GLACIER (upper part) in the northeast part of the map sheet
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Transantarctic Mountains
width	Max. 8 kilometers
Coordinates	76 ° 13 '  S , 162 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 76 ° 13 '  S , 162 ° 5'  E
drainage	Ross Sea

The Mawson Glacier is a mighty, up to 8 km wide glacier in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows from the polar plateau north of the Trinity Nunatak and the Kirkwood Range in an easterly direction to the Scott coast and flows into the Ross Sea in the form of the Nordenskjöld ice tongue .

Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907–1909) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton discovered him. It is named after the Australian geologist and polar explorer Douglas Mawson (1882-1958), a participant in the expedition and later head of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) and the BANZARE (1929-1931).

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Mawson Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Mawson Glacier on geographic.org (English)
• Mawson Glacier. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 200 (English)