Scrivener Glacier
Scrivener Glacier | ||
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location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 76 ° 57 ′ S , 161 ° 37 ′ E | |
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drainage | Mackay Glacier |
The Scrivener Glacier (English for Schreibergletscher ) is a small glacier in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows in a south-westerly direction and flows into the Mackay Glacier immediately west of Mount Allan Thomson .
The name goes back to participants in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . The further naming background has not been passed down.
Web links
- Scrivener Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Scrivener Glacier on geographic.org (English)