McCraw Glacier
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location | Australian Antarctic Territory | |
Mountains | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 80 ° 7 ′ S , 156 ° 35 ′ E | |
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drainage | Hatherton Glacier |
The McCraw Glacier is a glacier in the Australian Antarctic Territory . In the Britannia Range, it flows from the northwest slopes of Mount Olympus in a northerly direction west of Johnstone Ridge to the Hatherton Glacier .
A team of geologists from the University of Waikato , who worked in the area between 1978 and 1979, made the designation. It is named after the New Zealand soil scientist John Davidson McCraw (1925-2014), who was involved in explorations in the Antarctic dry valleys between 1959 and 1960 .
Web links
- McCraw Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McCraw Glacier on geographic.org (English)