Simpson glacier
| Simpson glacier | ||
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| location | Viktorialand , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Admiralty Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 10 km | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ S , 168 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| drainage | Somow lake | |
The Simpson Glacier is a 10 km long glacier in the Admiralty Mountains in the north of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows north between Nelson Cliff and Mount Cherry-Garrard and runs in the form of a small glacier tongue ( 71 ° 15 ′ S , 168 ° 45 ′ E ), which also marks the end of the Fendley Glacier , on the Pennell Coast in the Somow Sea .
The glacier tongue was named by participants in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) after George Clarke Simpson (1878-1965), the expedition's meteorologist. The glacier itself was mapped by the United States Geological Survey between 1960 and 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names took over the naming of the glacier tongue for the glacier in 1970.
Web links
- Simpson Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Simpson Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Simpson Glacier Tongue at geographic.org (English). Retrieved February 25, 2016.