Poulter Glacier
| Poulter Glacier | ||
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| location | Marie-Byrd-Land , West Antarctica (politically: Ross Dependency ) | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 86 ° 50 ′ S , 153 ° 30 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Scott Glacier | |
The Poulter Glacier is a glacier in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it flows east along the southern flank of the Rawson Mountains to the Scott Glacier .
The team around the geologist Quin Blackburn (1900-1981) discovered him in December 1934 during the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . Byrd named him after the physicist Thomas Poulter (1897–1978), deputy head of the research trip .
Web links
- Poulter Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Poulter Glacier on geographic.org (English)