Towle Glacier
| Towle Glacier | ||
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 Towle Glacier in the southeastern part of the map sheet |
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Convoy Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 38 ′ S , 161 ° 5 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Fry glacier | |
The Towle Glacier is a glacier in the Convoy Range in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows in a northeasterly direction between the mountain ridges Eastwind Ridge and Elkhorn Ridge to the Fry Glacier .
The New Zealand northern group of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) mapped it in 1957 and named it after the USNS Private John R. Towle , a cargo ship of the US associations in McMurdo Sound , which in December 1956 made a large part of the supplies of the northern group transported.
Web links
- Towle Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Towle Glacier on geographic.org (English)