Stocking Glacier
| Stocking Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 42 ′ S , 161 ° 50 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Taylor Valley | |
The Stocking Glacier (from English stocking 'stocking' ) is a steep glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows immediately east of the Catspaw Glacier in a southerly direction into the Taylor Valley .
The British geographer Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880–1963), a participant in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913), named it that because its shape reminded it of a stocking.
Web links
- Stocking Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stocking Glacier on geographic.org (English)