Tinker glacier
| Tinker glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Southern Cross Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 40 km | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 0 ′ S , 164 ° 50 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Wood Bay | |
The Tinker Glacier is a 40 km long glacier in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows from the central part of the Southern Cross Mountains in a south-easterly direction to Wood Bay on the Borchgrevink coast , where it ends in the form of a glacier tongue ( 74 ° 6 ′ S , 165 ° 2 ′ E ).
The northern group of a campaign carried out from 1962 to 1963 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named him after Lieutenant Colonel Ronald Arthur Tinker (1913-1982), head of Scott Base at that time.
Web links
- Tinker Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tinker Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Drinker Glacier Tongue on geographic.org (English). Retrieved December 19, 2015.
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1574 (English).