Cambridge Glacier

Cambridge Glacier (76°57′S 160°31′E / 76.950°S 160.517°E / -76.950; 160.517Coordinates: 76°57′S 160°31′E / 76.950°S 160.517°E / -76.950; 160.517) is a wide sheetlike glacier between the Convoy Range and the Coombs Hills, draining south into the Mackay Glacier between Mount Bergen and Gateway Nunatak. It was surveyed in 1957 by the New Zealand Northern Survey Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1956–58, and named by them after Cambridge University, where many of the various Antarctic scientific reports have been written.

References


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, November 21, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.