Repeater glacier
| Repeater glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 29 ′ S , 162 ° 51 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Newall Glacier | |
The Repeater Glacier is a steep and 1.4 km long glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Asgard Range it flows from Ponder Peak in an easterly direction to the Newall Glacier .
The New Zealand Geographic Board named it in 1998. As with the neighboring Commanda Glacier , it is named after a high-frequency repeater that was installed on nearby Mount Newall for the radio communications of New Zealand field research teams.
Web links
- Repeater Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Repeater Glacier on geographic.org (English)