Reeves glacier

Reeves glacier
Map sheet with REEVES GLACIER in the southwest area of ​​the map
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Transantarctic Mountains
length	40 km
surface	640 km²
Coordinates	74 ° 45 ′  S , 162 ° 15 ′  E Coordinates: 74 ° 45 ′  S , 162 ° 15 ′  E
drainage	Ross Sea

The Reeves Glacier is a wide glacier that runs from its area of ​​origin near the polar plateau in East Antarctic Victoria Land to the east between the Eisenhower Range and Mount Larsen and flows into the Ross Sea in conjunction with the Nansen ice sheet .

The glacier was discovered by participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton . It is named after the New Zealand statesman William Pember Reeves (1857–1932).

See also

• Reeves Firnfeld
• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Reeves Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Reeves Glacier on geographic.org (English)
• Reeves Glacier. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 255 (English)