Tillit glacier
| Tillit glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Alexandra Chain , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 51 ′ S , 166 ° 0 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Lennox King Glacier | |
The Tillit Glacier ( English Tillite Glacier ) is a glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It flows from Pagoda Peak in the Queen Alexandra Range in a north-westerly direction to the Lennox King Glacier , which it reaches north of Fairchild Peak .
Participants in a campaign carried out from 1961 to 1962 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named him. It was named after rocky outcrops from Tillit found in the area of the glacier , remnants of a moraine from the Paleozoic .
Web links
- Tillites Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tillite Glacier on geographic.org (English)