Sargent glacier
| Sargent glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 23 ′ S , 163 ° 50 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Axel Heiberg Glacier | |
The Sargent Glacier is a steep-walled glacier in the Queen Maud Mountains in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It flows from the Herbert Range in a south-easterly direction to the Axel-Heiberg Glacier , which it reaches south-east of Bell Peak .
It is possible that the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen spotted him for the first time between November and December 1911 on his South Pole expedition (1910–1912). Participants in the American Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–1930) made a rough mapping . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after the American physicist Howard H. Sargent III., Who carried out studies of the ionosphere on the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 1964 .
Web links
- Sargent Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sargent Glacier on geographic.org (English)