Prebble Glacier
| Prebble Glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Alexandra Chain , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 15 km | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 16 ′ S , 164 ° 30 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Walcott Firn Field | |
The Prebble Glacier is an approximately 15 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Alexandra chain of the Transantarctic Mountains it flows from Mount Kirkpatrick in a westerly direction to the Walcott Firnfield , which it reaches north of Fremouw Peak .
The northern group of a campaign carried out from 1961 to 1962 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named him after the expedition member Michael Maynard Prebble (1929-1998), who helped the group with the expedition preparation and training.
Web links
- Prebble Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Prebble Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1246 (English).