Upper Wright Glacier
| Upper Wright Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 32 ′ S , 160 ° 35 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Wright Valley | |
The Upper Wright Glacier is one of the Polar Plateau to the east in the upper end of Wright Valley flowing glacier in the East Antarctic Victoria Land .
Participants in a campaign carried out from 1958 to 1959 as part of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions named it in connection with the Lower Wright Glacier after the Canadian physicist Charles Seymour Wright (1887-1975), member of the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913 ) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott .
Web links
- Wright Upper Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wright Upper Glacier on geographic.org (English)