Rennick firn field
| Rennick firn field | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 10 ′ S , 160 ° 20 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Rennick Glacier | |
The Rennick Firnfeld is a firn field in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is at the head of the Rennick Glacier .
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1966 based on the naming of the glacier of the same name. Its namesake is Henry Edward de Parny Rennick (1881–1914), ship's officer on the Terra Nova in the expedition named after this (1910–1913) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott .
Web links
- Rennick Névé in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rennick Névé on geographic.org (English)