Murray Glacier
| Murray Glacier | ||
|---|---|---|
 The Murray Glacier (left margin), Geikie Ridge (center) and Dugdale Glacier (right) |
||
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Admiralty Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 32 km | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 39 ′ S , 170 ° 0 ′ E | |
|
||
| drainage | Robertson Bay , Southern Ocean | |
 The Murray Glacier west of the Adare Peninsula |
||
The Murray Glacier is a 32 km long valley glacier in the north of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows seaward in the Admiralty Mountains along the eastern flank of Geikie Ridge . The lower end of the glacier merges with the Dugdale Glacier at the confluence with Robertson Bay west of the Duke of York Island .
The glacier was first mapped by participants in the Southern Cross Expedition (1898–1900) under the direction of the Norwegian polar explorer Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink . Borchgrevink named him after the British oceanographer John Murray (1841-1914), participant of the Challenger expedition (1872-1876).
Web links
- Murray Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Murray Glacier on geographic.org (English)