Pyne glacier
| Pyne glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Gonville and Caius Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 4 ′ S , 162 ° 18 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Mackay Glacier | |
The Pyne Glacier is a glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Gonville and Caius Range, it flows east of Robson Glacier in a northerly direction and joins the Mackay Glacier southwest of The Flatiron .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2000 after Alexander Richard Pyne (* 1956) of the Victoria University of Wellington , who was involved in various geological and glaciological work in Antarctica from 1977 .
Web links
- Pyne Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pyne Glacier on geographic.org (English)