Northcliffe Glacier
| Northcliffe Glacier | ||
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| location | Queen Marie Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 40 ′ S , 98 ° 52 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Mawson Lake , Southern Ocean | |
The Northcliffe Glacier is a glacier that flows into the East Antarctic Queen Marie Land immediately east of the Davis Peninsula to the Mawson Sea .
He was discovered by the team at the West Base during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson . It is named after Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865–1922), a patron of the expedition.
Web links
- Northcliffe Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Northcliffe Glacier on geographic.org