Webb Glacier (Antarctica)
| Webb Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 19 ′ S , 160 ° 45 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Barwick Valley | |
The Webb Glacier is a glacier in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . It flows north of Mount Bastion and the Gibson Spur in a southeastern direction into the upper section of the Barwick Valley .
Participants in a 1958-1959 campaign as part of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions named him. It is named after Peter-Noel Webb, a member of the expedition who carried out geological surveys in this and in the Wright Valley .
Web links
- Webb Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Webb Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter-Noel Webb , profile page on the Ohio State University homepage (accessed January 4, 2016).