Skellerup glacier
| Skellerup glacier | ||
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| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 81 ° 38 ′ S , 155 ° 42 ′ E | |
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The Skellerup Glacier is a glacier in the Transantarctic Mountains . It flows between the All-Blacks and the Wilhoite-Nunatakkern west of the Churchill Mountains in a west-northwest direction.
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 2003 after Peter Jensen Reid Skellerup (1918-2006), director of the Canterbury Museum's foundation for local exhibitions on Antarctica .
Web links
- Skellerup Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Skellerup Glacier on geographic.org (English)