Recovery glacier
| Recovery glacier | ||
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| location | Coatsland , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Shackleton Range | |
| length | 96 km | |
| width | Max. 64 km | |
| Coordinates | 81 ° 10 ′ S , 28 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| particularities | Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf | |
The Recovery Glacier is a glacier in the East Antarctic Coatsland . It flows west along the south side of the Shackleton Range to the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf , which it reaches north of the Whichaway Nunatakker .
It was first sighted in 1957 by participants in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) under the direction of British polar explorer Vivian Fuchs . Its name comes from the repeated recovery (English: recovery ) of expedition vehicles several times here in crevasses had broken.
Web links
- Recovery Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Recovery Glacier on geographic.org (English)