Prince of Wales Glacier
| Prince of Wales Glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Alexandra Chain , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 16 km | |
| Coordinates | 82 ° 44 ′ S , 160 ° 10 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Hamilton glacier | |
The Prince of Wales Glacier is a 10 miles long glacier in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Queen Alexandra chain it flows mainly northwards between the Hochstein Ridge and the Komhyr Ridge to the Hamilton Glacier .
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 Charles, Prince of Wales (* 1948), eldest son of the British monarch Elizabeth II.
Web links
- Prince of Wales Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Prince of Wales Glacier on geographic.org (English)