New Glacier
| New Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 2 ′ S , 162 ° 24 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Granite Harbor , McMurdo Sound , Ross Sea | |
The New Glacier ( English New Glacier ) is a small glacier on the Scott coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows from a low and icy plateau on the south side of the Mackay Glacier in an east-northeast direction and flows immediately north of Mount England into the southwestern foothills of Granite Harbor .
The Australian geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880-1963), participant in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott , mapped and named him. It is named after the fact that Taylor discovered him after going around a cliff where he had not expected one.
Web links
- New Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- New Glacier on geographic.org (English)