Shackleton Glacier
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 100 km | |
| width | ⌀ 8 km; Max. 16 km | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 35 ′ S , 176 ° 20 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Ross Ice Shelf | |
The Shackleton Glacier is a large, around 100 km long glacier in the Transantarctic Mountains of the Antarctic Ross Dependency. It flows from the polar plateau not far from the Roberts Massif in a northerly direction through the Queen Maud Mountains and flows into the Ross Ice Shelf on the Dufek Coast , which it reaches between Mount Speed and the Waldron Spurs .
Participants of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941) discovered him on a reconnaissance flight between February 29 and March 1, 1940. They named him as Wade Glacier after the geologist Franklin Alton Wade (1903-1978), the chief Scientists on the expedition. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names decided against it in 1947 to name the glacier after the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922).
Web links
- Shackleton Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Shackleton Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1396 (English).
