Northwind Glacier
| Northwind Glacier | ||
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 Northwind Gl in the southeast part of the map sheet |
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Convoy Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 40 ′ S , 161 ° 18 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Fry glacier | |
Northwind Glacier is a large glacier in the Convoy Range in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows from the western section of the Flight Deck Firnfield in a northerly direction between the Elkhorn Ridge and the Sunker Nunatakkern to the Fry Glacier . A short side tongue flows west to the entrance of the Greenville Valley .
The New Zealand Northern Group of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) named it after the icebreaker USCGC Northwind , which belonged to the US Association in McMurdo Sound from 1956 to 1957 .
Web links
- Northwind Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Northwind Glacier on geographic.org (English)