South America Glacier
| South America Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Kukri Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 49 ′ S , 161 ° 47 ′ E | |
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The South America Glacier (English for South America Glacier ) is a small glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It's near the southwest corner of the Kukri Hills . The ice of the glacier hangs down from a 2000 m high cliff.
The western group led by the Australian geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880-1963) on the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott named him. It is named after the similarity of the shape of the glacier to that of South America .
Web links
- South America Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- South America Glacier on geographic.org (English)