Souchez glacier
| Souchez glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 27 km (roughly estimated) | |
| Coordinates | 86 ° 17 ′ S , 154 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Bartlett Glacier | |
The Souchez Glacier is an approximately 27 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it flows south from Mount Crockett along the east side of the Faulkner Escarpment , then south-east parallel to the southwest flank of the Hays Mountains . It turns south of Mount Dietz into the Bartlett Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after the Belgian Roland A. Souchez, who was involved in geological studies at McMurdo Station from 1965 to 1966 .
Web links
- Souchez Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Souchez Glacier on geographic.org (English)