Sharpend Glacier
| Sharpend Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Convoy Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 2.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| drainage | Alatna Valley | |
The Sharpend Glacier (English for Pointed Glacier ) is a 2.5 km long glacier in East Antarctica Victoria Land . In the Convoy Range, it flows from the southern end of Staten Island Heights into the Alatna Valley .
A team from the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program that worked in the area between 1989 and 1990 gave it its descriptive name in relation to the shape of its mouth.
Web links
- Sharpend Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sharpend Glacier on geographic.org (English)