Lower Wright Glacier
| Lower Wright Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 25 ′ S , 163 ° 0 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Wilson Piedmont Glacier | |
The Lower Wright Glacier is a sluggish glacier that occupies the valley exit of the Wright Valley in East Antarctic Victoria Land and merges into the eastern flank of the Wilson Piedmont Glacier .
Participants in a 1958-1959 campaign as part of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions changed its previous name, Wright Glacier, to its current name, in order to differentiate it from the Upper Wright Glacier at the head of the Wright Valley. The original name goes back to the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913). It is named after the Canadian physicist Charles Seymour Wright (1887–1975), a member of this British expedition.
Web links
- Wright Lower Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wright Lower Glacier on geographic.org (English)