Beaver Glacier is a
glacier
A glacier (; ) is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires distinguishing features, such as ...
about long and wide, flowing west into
Amundsen Bay
Amundsen Bay, also known as Ice Bay, is a long embayment wide, close west of the Tula Mountains in Enderby Land, Antarctica. The bay was seen as a large pack-filled recession in the coastline by Sir Douglas Mawson on 14 January 1930. Seen by Capta ...
between
Auster Glacier
Auster Glacier () is a glacier about wide, flowing northwest into the southeast extremity of Amundsen Bay. It was sighted in October 1956 by an Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) party led by P.W. Crohn, and named after ...
and
Mount Gleadell
Mount Gleadell () is a nearly conical ice-free peak, high, the highest summit on the headland just north of Observation Island at the east side of Amundsen Bay, Antarctica. It was sighted in October 1956 by an Australian National Antarctic Rese ...
. The head of Beaver Glacier is located very close to the base of
Mount King in
Enderby Land
Enderby Land is a projecting landmass of Antarctica. Its shore extends from Shinnan Glacier at about to William Scoresby Bay at , approximately of the earth's longitude. It was first documented in western and eastern literature in February 18 ...
. It was visited by an
Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) party on October 28, 1956, and named after the
Beaver aircraft used by ANARE in coastal exploration.
See also
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List of glaciers in the Antarctic
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Glaciology
Glaciology (; ) is the scientific study of glaciers, or more generally ice and natural phenomena that involve ice.
Glaciology is an interdisciplinary Earth science that integrates geophysics, geology, physical geography, geomorphology, c ...
Further reading
* Charles Swithinbank,
Mowson Coast and Enderby Land', Antarctica, Issue 1386, Part 2, P 77
* Ute Christina Herzfeld,
Atlas of Antarctica: Topographic Maps from Geostatistical Analysis of Satellite Radar Altimeter Data', P 83
References
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Glaciers of Enderby Land
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