Scylla Glacier
| Scylla Glacier | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 20 ′ S , 67 ° 0 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Amery Ice Shelf | |
The Scylla Glacier is a large glacier in Mac Robertson Land, East Antarctica . In the Prince Charles Mountains it flows in an easterly direction between the Athos Range and the Porthos Range to the Amery Ice Shelf .
It was discovered in December 1956 by participants in a campaign of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions led by Australian mountaineer William Gordon Bewsher (1924–2012) and named after Scylla , a sea monster from Greek mythology, because of the inhospitable nature of the area .
Web links
- Scylla Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Scylla Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Bewsher, William Gordon (Bill) (1924-2012) . Entry in the Encyclopedia of Australian Science (accessed January 5, 2016).