Sledgers Glacier
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location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Bowers Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 71 ° 26 ′ S , 162 ° 48 ′ E | |
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drainage | Rennick Glacier |
The Sledgers Glacier is a glacier in the Bowers Mountains of East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows from Husky Pass along the Lanterman Range in a northwesterly direction and reaches the Rennick Glacier between Carnes Crag and Mount Gow .
It was named by the northern group of 1963 carried out until 1964 campaign as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (in memory of the sled teams English sledgers ) of the Golden Age of Antarctic research in the late 19th and early 20th century as well as their achievements in the development of the Antarctic areas.
Web links
- Sledgers Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sledgers Glacier on geographic.org (English)