Miers glacier
Miers glacier | ||
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The Miers Valley with the Adams Glacier (middle) and the Miers Glacier (right) |
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location | Viktorialand , Antarctica | |
Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 78 ° 5 ′ S , 163 ° 40 ′ E | |
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drainage | Lake Miers |
The Miers Glacier is a small glacier north of Terminus Mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land , which occupies the upper, western section of the Miers Valley .
It was mapped and named by participants in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . The namesake is unknown.
Web links
- Miers Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Miers Glacier on geographic.org (English)