Packard glacier
| Packard glacier | ||
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.jpg) Packard Gl on the topographic map sheet |
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Saint Johns Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 21 ′ S , 162 ° 10 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Victoria Valley | |
The Packard Glacier is a glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows in the Saint Johns Range immediately west of Purgatory Peak in a southerly direction to the Victoria Valley .
The glacier was mapped in a 1958-1959 campaign as part of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions . It is named after the New Zealand biologist Andrew Packard (* 1929), between 1957 and 1958 a member of the New Zealand team in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958).
Web links
- Packard Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Packard Glacier on geographic.org (English)