Ringer Glacier
| Ringer Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Saint Johns Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 8 kilometers | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| drainage | Miller Glacier | |
The Ringer Glacier is an 8 km long glacier in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . It flows from the northeast flank of the Saint Johns Range in a northeast direction to the Miller Glacier .
It is named in connection with the moraine The Ringer in its estuary, which has a conspicuous, eponymous circular symmetry in its projection surface. The name first appeared on a New Zealand map in 1961 and has been recognized by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names since 1995 .
Web links
- Ringer Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ringer Glacier on geographic.org (English)