Pedalling Ice Field
| Pedalling Ice Field | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Head Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 15 ′ S , 159 ° 55 ′ E | |
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The Pedalling Ice Field (English for cycling ice field ) is a glacier field made of blue ice in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Head Mountains , it is immediately south of Mount DeWitt and Mount Littlepage on the edge of the polar plateau .
The name, recognized by the New Zealand Geographic Board since 1995 , is intended to commemorate the use of bicycles for glacier mapping by a team under the direction of New Zealand glaciologist Trevor J. H. Chinn (* 1937) in this area between 1992 and 1993.
Web links
- Pedaling Ice Field in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pedalling Ice Field on geographic.org (English)