Overflow glacier
| Overflow glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 47 ′ S , 163 ° 11 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Ferrar glacier | |
The Overflow Glacier is a steep glacier in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . It flows east of Briggs Hill in a northerly direction to the Ferrar Glacier .
Its descriptive name was given by the team led by the British geographer Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880-1963) during the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . It is named after the ice masses of the glacier flow over those of the Ferrar glacier at its mouth.
Web links
- Overflow Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Overflow Glacier on geographic.org (English)