Ox Glacier
| Ox Glacier | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Ford Ranges | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 30 ′ S , 145 ° 35 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Block Bay | |
The Ochs Glacier is a glacier in the Ford Ranges in Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . It flows between Mount Iphigene and Mount Avers to Block Bay on the Saunders Coast .
Participants in the first Antarctic expedition (1928-1930) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd discovered him. Byrd named him after Adolph Ochs (1858-1935), owner of the New York Times and sponsor of the expedition.
Web links
- Ochs Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ochs Glacier on geographic.org (English)