Wahl glacier
| Wahl glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Alexandra Chain , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 16 km | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 59 ′ S , 165 ° 6 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Lennox King Glacier | |
 Map sheet Mount Elizabeth from 1965 (new edition 1988), WAHL GL in the southwest corner |
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The Wahl Glacier is a 16 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Alexandra chain of the Transantarctic Mountains, it flows from the Grindley Plateau in a north-westerly direction to the upper section of the Lennox-King Glacier , which it reaches west of Mount Mackellar . The Wahl Glacier is located 5630 km as the crow flies from Sydney , Australia, and 678 km south of McMurdo Station .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after the German physicist and rocket developer Bruno Wahl (1928-2000), who was active in the Antarctic winter of 1962 on studies of the ionosphere at McMurdo Station. Rocks near the glacier are rich in fossils .
Web links
- Election Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Election Glacier on geographic.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Setting up base camp in the Transantarctic Mountains ( Memento from November 26, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )