Touchdown Glacier
| Touchdown Glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Cook Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 79 ° 48 ′ S , 158 ° 10 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Darwin glacier | |
The Touchdown Glacier ( English for landing glacier ) is a glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It flows south in the Cook Mountains between the Roadend Nunatak and the Brown Hills to the Darwin Glacier .
Participants in a 1962 to 1963 campaign as part of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions mapped it and named the glacier because it served as a landing pad for planes in support of the research trip.
Web links
- Touchdown Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Touchdown Glacier on geographic.org (English)