Mellor glacier
| Mellor glacier | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 30 ′ S , 66 ° 30 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Lambert Glacier | |
The Mellor Glacier is a glacier in Mac Robertson Land, East Antarctica . It flows in a north-northeast direction between Mount Newton and Mount Maguire in the Prince Charles Mountains and merges with the Collins Glacier just before it joins the Lambert Glacier at Patrick Point .
It was mapped using aerial photographs taken in 1956 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named him after the glaciologist Malcom Mellor (1933-1991), who worked at Mawson Station in 1957 and from 1961 to 1991 as an engineer for the US Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory .
Web links
- Mellor Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mellor Glacier on geographic.org (English)