McLeod Glacier (Viktorialand)
| McLeod Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Wilson Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 22 ′ S , 158 ° 22 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Davies Bay , Somow Lake | |
The McLeod Glacier is a glacier in the north of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows from the Wilson Hills between the Stanwix Ridge and Arthurson Ridge ridges to Davies Bay on the Oates Coast .
Australian cartographers mapped the glacier using aerial photographs from the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after the Australian geologist Ian Roderick McLeod (* 1931), head of the air-assisted team that explored the area around the glacier as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1961.
Web links
- McLeod Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McLeod Glacier on geographic.org (English)