Pain firn field

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Pain firn field
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location Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 84 ° 36 ′  S , 174 ° 20 ′  E Coordinates: 84 ° 36 ′  S , 174 ° 20 ′  E
Pain Firn Field (Antarctica)
Pain firn field
drainage Keltie glacier
Map of the northwest Queen Maud Mountains from 1965, PAIN NÉVÉ between Commonwealth Range and Hughes Range

Map of the northwest Queen Maud Mountains from 1965, PAIN NÉVÉ between Commonwealth Range and Hughes Range

The Pain Firn Field is a firn field in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It lies between the Commonwealth Range and the Hughes Range . The Keltie Glacier flows from it in a south-westerly direction to the Beardmore Glacier .

It was named by the southern group of a campaign carried out from 1961 to 1962 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition after Kevin Patrick Pain (≈1927–2015), a member of the expedition.

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