Staircase glacier
| Staircase glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Admiralty Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 13 km | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 16 ′ S , 168 ° 43 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Tucker Glacier | |
The Staircase Glacier is a 13 km glacier in East Antarctica Victoria Land . In the Admiralty Mountains, it flows in a south-westerly direction between Mount Francis and Mount Titus to the Tucker Glacier .
Scientists from a 1957 to 1958 campaign of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named it after the nearby staircase station they built for surveying work . The latter owes its name to a beaten into the ice staircase ( English staircase ).
Web links
- Staircase Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Staircase Glacier on geographic.org (English)