Ommanney Glacier
| Ommanney Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Admiralty Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 32 km | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 32 ' S , 169 ° 29' E | |
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| drainage | Relay Bay | |
The Ommanney Glacier is a 32 km long glacier on the Pennell coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It meanders through the Admiralty Mountains to the north and flows into Relay Bay in the western part of Robertson Bay .
Participants in the Southern Cross Expedition (1898–1900) led by the Norwegian polar explorer Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink mapped it for the first time. Borchgrevink named the glacier after the British admiral and Arctic explorer Erasmus Ommanney (1814-1904), who participated in the second Franklin search expedition under Horatio Thomas Austin in 1850 .
Web links
- Ommanney Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ommanney Glacier on geographic.org (English)