Meserve glacier
| Meserve glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Type | Hanging glacier | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 31 ′ S , 162 ° 17 ′ E | |
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 Meserve Gl in the western area of the topographic map sheet |
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The Meserve Glacier is a glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Asgard Range, it flows between the Bartley and Hart Glaciers into the Wright Valley .
It is one of the slowest flowing glaciers. He covers a maximum of half a centimeter per day. It takes about three months to travel one meter and in the last 90 years has not covered more than a third of a kilometer. In comparison, alpine glaciers reach a flow speed of 30 to 150 meters per year and in West Greenland there are glaciers that cover up to 7000 meters annually.
The American geologist Robert Leslie Nichols (1904-1995) named him after his compatriot and mountaineer William "Bill" Meserve, who helped him between 1959 and 1960 to explore Marble Point .
Web links
- Details about the Meserve Glacier (Australian Antarctic Data Center)