Rhone Glacier (Antarctica)
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The Rohne Glacier (top right) at the point where the Taylor Glacier joins Lake Bonney |
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 42 ′ S , 162 ° 14 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Taylor Valley | |
The Rhone Glacier is a glacier in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . In the Asgard Range it flows west of the Matterhorn Glacier in a southerly direction to the mouth of the Taylor Glacier in the Bonneysee .
Participants in the British Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) mapped and named him. It is named after the glacier of the same name in Switzerland .
Web links
- Rhone Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rhone Glacier on geographic.org (English)