Rabot glacier
| Rabot glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Elizabeth Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 16 km | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 11 ′ S , 160 ° 10 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Marsh glacier | |
The Rabot Glacier is a 16 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Elizabeth Range of the Transantarctic Mountains, it flows from Mount Rabot between Mount Counts and the Bartrum Plateau in a westerly direction to the Marsh Glacier .
Participants in a campaign carried out from 1961 to 1962 by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961–1962) named him based on the name of Mount Rabot. Its namesake is the French geographer and glaciologist Charles Rabot (1856–1944).
Web links
- Rabot Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rabot Glacier on geographic.org (English)