Wager glacier
| Wager glacier | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 48 ′ S , 69 ° 22 ′ W | |
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| drainage | George VI Sound | |
The Wager Glacier is a small and very rugged glacier on the east coast of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It flows in a trench-like valley in an easterly direction and flows into George VI Sound just south of Marr Bluff .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out measurements and naming in 1948. It is named after the British geologist and mountaineer Lawrence Rickard Wager (1904–1965), a member of the British Mount Everest Expedition in 1933 .
Web links
- Wager Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wager Glacier on geographic.org (English)