Walker Glacier
| Walker Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Willett Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 20 ′ S , 160 ° 37 ′ E | |
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The Walker Glacier is a versions on the retreating glacier in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Willett Range it flows northeast along the western flank of the Gibson Spur into the Caffin Valley .
The New Zealand Geographic Board named him in 2005 after Barry Walker, a member of the geological team of three consecutive Antarctic summer campaigns of Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions between 1979 and 1983, who had led studies on Mount Bastion .
Web links
- Walker Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Walker Glacier on geographic.org (English)