Salmon Glacier (Antarctica)
| Salmon Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Denton Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 58 ′ S , 164 ° 5 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Salmon Stream | |
The Salmon Glacier is a small glacier in the Denton Hills of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located 8 km west-southwest of Cape Chocolate and immediately south of Salmon Hill .
Participants in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott originally named it Davis Glacier . The New Zealand geological team of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1956-1958) renamed it to its current form in order to avoid confusion with the Davis Glacier of the same name . The name given to Salmon Hill by Frank Debenham on the Terra Nova Expedition after the salmon-colored rock of the hill.
Web links
- Salmon Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Salmon Glacier on geographic.org (English)