Mushketov Glacier (Antarctica)
| Mushketov glacier | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| length | 70 km | |
| width | Max. 60 km | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 20 ′ S , 14 ° 55 ′ E | |
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The Muschketow Glacier ( Russian Ледник Мушкетова Lednik Muschketowa , Norwegian Mushketovbreen ) is a 70 km long and 60 km wide glacier flowing northeast in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It drains the area between the Wohlthat massif in the east and the Weyprecht mountains to the west , the Payer group and the Lomonossow mountains .
It was discovered and mapped using aerial photographs during the German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939) under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Soviet scientists, who also made the name, repeated this on an expedition that lasted from 1958 to 1959. It is named after the Russian geologist and geographer Ivan Muschketow (1850–1902).
Web links
- Mushketov Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mushketov Glacier on geographic.org (English)