Pascoe Glacier
| Pascoe Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Convoy Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Type | Kar glacier | |
| length | 2.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Pascoe Glacier is a 2.5 km long Kar glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Convoy Range, it flows from the north end of Staten Island Heights into the Greenville Valley .
The New Zealand geologist Christopher J. Burgess, head of a 1976-1977 campaign as part of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions , named him. It is named after the New Zealand mountaineer and author John Dobrée Pascoe (1908–1972).
Web links
- Pascoe Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pascoe Glacier on geographic.org