Midship glacier
| Midship glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Convoy Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 52 ′ S , 161 ° 30 ′ E | |
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The Midship Glacier ( German Mittschiffs -Gletscher ) is a wide glacier in the East Antarctic Viktorialand . It flows in the Convoy Range from the slopes of Mount Morrison and fills most of the Alatna Valley .
The New Zealand Northern Group of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) mapped it in 1957 as part of the Benson Glacier . Later investigations showed that the ice masses of the glacier did not merge into the Benson glacier despite a connection at the Jetsam moraine . The Midship Glacier is one of the Convoy Range geographic features that the New Zealand Geographic Board gave a nautical name to in 1994.
Web links
- Midship Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Midship Glacier on geographic.org (English)