The Landing
| The Landing | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 22 ′ S , 161 ° 25 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Skelton Glacier | |
The Landing (English for the landing ) is a large and flat snow field in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located in the Upper Skelton Glacier between the Upper and Lower Staircase glacier sections .
The firn field was mapped and descriptively named after its location in 1957 by the New Zealand crew of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958).
Web links
- The Landing in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- The Landing on geographic.org (English)