Newnes Glacier
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 The short Newnes Glacier at the head of Robertson Bay north of the isthmus of the Adare Peninsula (right) and the mainland coast of northern Victoria Land |
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 41 ′ S , 170 ° 14 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Protection Cove | |
The Newnes Glacier is a glacier on the Pennell Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows steeply from the Adare Saddle between the Admiralty Mountains and the Adare Peninsula to Protection Cove at the head of Robertson Bay .
It was mapped by participants in the British Southern Cross Expedition (1898–1900) under the direction of the Norwegian polar explorer Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink . Borchgrevink named the glacier after the British publisher George Newnes (1851-1910), who financed the research trip .
Web links
- Newnes Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Newnes Glacier on geographic.org (English)