McLay glacier
| McLay glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 81 ° 2 ′ S , 158 ° 49 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Nursery Glacier | |
The McLay Glacier is a glacier in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Churchill Mountains it flows in a south-southeast direction to the Nursery Glacier . Mount Durnford , Mount Stewart and Mount Liard tower on its north flank, Turk Peak and Bradshaw Peak on its south flank.
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the glacier on February 27, 2003 after the New Zealand politician James Kenneth McLay (* 1945), at that time Minister of Justice and Deputy Prime Minister of his home country, who in his function as a representative of the New Zealand Whaling Commission for nine For years he campaigned for the whaling ban and against the supposedly scientific whaling in the Southern Ocean .
Web links
- McLay Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McLay Glacier on geographic.org (English)