Sheehan Glacier
| Sheehan Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Explorers Range , Bowers Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 56 ′ S , 162 ° 24 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Rennick Glacier | |
The Sheehan Glacier is a steep and very rugged glacier in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . It flows from Miller Peak in the Explorers Range of the Bowers Mountains to the Rennick Glacier , which it reaches immediately south of the Alvárez Glacier .
It was named by the northern group of a campaign carried out by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition from 1963 to 1964 after the New Zealand mountaineer Maurice James Sheehan, participant of the research trip, who had wintered at Scott Base in 1963 .
Web links
- Sheehan Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sheehan Glacier on geographic.org (English)