Sprocket Glacier
| Sprocket Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Clare Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 5 km | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| drainage | Mackay Glacier | |
The Sprocket Glacier is a 5 km long glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows from Skew Peak in the Clare Range in a northerly direction to the Mackay Glacier , which it reaches at the Chain Moraines .
By the New Zealand Geographic Board recognized in 1995 designation for a sprocket ( English sprocket ) goes to the use of bicycles as means of transport in the exploration of the area by the team to the New Zealand glaciologist Trevor JH Chinn (* 1937) in 1992 and 1993 back .
Web links
- Sprocket Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sprocket Glacier on geographic.org (English)