Lower Victoria Glacier
| Lower Victoria Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 18 ′ S , 162 ° 40 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Wilson Piedmont Glacier | |
The Lower Victoria Glacier is a glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It occupies the eastern end of the Victoria Valley and merges into the Wilson Piedmont Glacier on the Scott Coast .
It was named on the occasion of a campaign carried out from 1958 to 1959 as part of the New Zealand Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions after the alma mater of the Victoria University of Wellington , who had financially supported the expedition.
Web links
- Victoria Lower Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Victoria Lower Glacier on geographic.org (English)