Nielsen glacier
| Nielsen glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 6 km | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ S , 169 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| drainage | Relay Bay | |
The Nielsen Glacier is a 6 km long glacier on the Pennell coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows north into Relay Bay , which it reaches immediately west of Calf Point .
Participants in the Southern Cross Expedition (1898–1900) led by the Norwegian polar explorer Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink mapped it for the first time. Borchgrevink named the glacier after the Norwegian historian, ethnographer and geographer Yngvar Nielsen (1843-1916) from the Royal Friedrichs University in Christiania .
Web links
- Nielsen Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nielsen Glacier on geographic.org (English)