Zeller glacier
Zeller glacier | ||
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location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
length | 16 km | |
Coordinates | 80 ° 55 ′ S , 156 ° 30 ′ E | |
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drainage | Byrd glacier | |
Map sheet Mount Olympus from 1964, Zeller Glacier in the southeast of the map |
The Zeller Glacier is a 16 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It flows in a west-northwest direction to the southern flank of the Byrd Glacier , which it reaches immediately north of Mount Fries .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1965 after the geologist Edward Jacob Zeller (1925-1996), who worked from 1959 to 1960 and from 1960 to 1961 at the McMurdo station .
Web links
- Zeller Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Zeller Glacier on geographic.org (English)