Nursery Glacier
| Nursery Glacier | ||
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 Card sheet with the NURSERY GLACIER on the northern edge of the card |
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 30 km | |
| Coordinates | 81 ° 16 ′ S , 160 ° 30 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Ross Ice Shelf | |
The Nursery Glacier is a 30 km long glacier on the Shackleton coast of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It flows in a south-easterly direction from the west side of the Darley Hills to the south side of Cape Parr and flows there into the Ross Ice Shelf .
Participants in a campaign carried out from 1959 to 1960 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named it after the English term for "day nursery " because a litter of sled dog puppies had been born on the glacier during the research trip .
Web links
- Nursery Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nursery Glacier on geographic.org (English)