Taylor Glacier (Viktorialand)
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| length | 56 km | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 44 ′ S , 162 ° 10 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Bonney Lake | |
 Card sheet with TAYLOR GLACIER (upper part) |
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The Taylor Glacier is a 56 km long glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows from the polar plateau into the western end of the Taylor Valley , which it reaches north of the Kukri Hills .
Participants of the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott discovered him. They mistook it for a section of the Ferrar Glacier . Scott named him in the course of the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913). It is named after the British geographer Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880-1963), who during this research trip led the part of the team that corrected the erroneous mapping.
Web links
- Taylor Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Taylor Glacier on geographic.org (English)