Victory glacier
| Victory glacier | ||
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| location | Trinity Peninsula , Graham Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Detroit plateau | |
| length | 13 km | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 48 ′ S , 58 ° 32 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Prince Gustav Canal | |
The Victory Glacier is an approximately 13 km long glacier with a leisurely slope on the Trinity Peninsula at the northern end of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows from the northern end of the Detroit Plateau to the Prinz Gustav Canal , which it reaches immediately north of Pitt Point .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped and named it. It was named after Japan's surrender in World War II in August 1945.
Web links
- Victory Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Victory Glacier on geographic.org (English)