Mill Glacier
| Mill Glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 16 km | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 10 ′ S , 168 ° 30 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Beardmore Glacier | |
The Mill Glacier is a 16 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It flows in a north-westerly direction between the Dominion Range and the Supporters Range to the Beardmore Glacier .
The glacier was discovered by participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton . It is named after Hugh Robert Mill (1861–1950), a Shackleton friend of the Discovery Expedition (1901–1904) and longtime librarian of the Royal Geographical Society . According to him also that is Mill Island named.
See also
Web links
- Mill Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mill Glacier on geographic.org (English)
- Mill Glacier. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 213 (English)