Strøm Glacier
| Strøm Glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 10 ′ S , 164 ° 30 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Ross Ice Shelf | |
The Strøm Glacier is a steep valley glacier in the Queen Maud Mountains in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It flows from the north side of Mount Fridtjof Nansen in a north-easterly direction between the Duncan Mountains on the north-west flank and the Herbert Range on the south-west side to the Ross Ice Shelf on the Amundsen coast .
The glacier is named after the so-called Strøm Camp . This was built in December 1929 at the foot of the glacier as part of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928-1930) by the geological team under Laurence McKinley Gould (1896-1995). The camp is named after the Norwegian Sverre Andreas Strøm (1898–1950), first mate of the City of New York ship on this research trip and head of the snowmobile unit , which supplied the two field research teams of the expedition with material.
Web links
- Glacier current in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Strom Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Western part of the "Strom Glacier" in the northeast of the map
Eastern part of the "Strom Glacier" in the northwest of the map
