Tait glacier
| Tait glacier | ||
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| location | James Ross Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 21 ′ S , 57 ° 59 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Carlsson Bay | |
The Tait Glacier is a 6 km long glacier on the southwest coast of the West Antarctic James Ross Island . It flows in a south-westerly direction to Carlsson Bay .
Participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) led by Otto Nordenskjöld in 1903 were probably the first to sight him. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) surveyed the glacier in 1945. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 1958 after Murdo Finlayson Tait (* 1923), who worked for the FIDS as a meteorologist at the Hope Bay station in 1952 and 1953 .
Web links
- Tait Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tait Glacier on geographic.org (English)