Tucker Glacier

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Tucker Glacier
TUCKER GLACIER in the northern area of ​​the map sheet

TUCKER GLACIER in the northern area of ​​the map sheet

location Viktorialand , Antarctica
Mountains Admiralty Mountains and Victory Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
length 144 km (90 miles)
Coordinates 72 ° 32 '  S , 169 ° 15'  E Coordinates: 72 ° 32 '  S , 169 ° 15'  E
Tucker Glacier (Antarctica)
Tucker Glacier
drainage Tucker Inlet → Ross Sea
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The Tucker Glacier is a large glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . With a length of 144 km (90 miles) it flows between the Admiralty Mountains and the Victory Mountains to the Tucker Inlet on the Borchgrevink coast . From a snow saddle at the head of the glacier, just west of the Homerun Range , flows of Ebbe Glacier northwest.

The glacier was explored by participants in a campaign carried out from 1957 to 1958 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition . It is named after the naming of Tucker Inlet after Charles T. Tucker, senior deck officer on the research vessel HMS Erebus in the Antarctic expedition led by James Clark Ross (1839-1843).

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