Mulock Glacier in
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...
is a heavily crevassed
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#Glaciology, ablation over many years, often Century, centuries. It acquires dis ...
which flows into the
Ross Ice Shelf
The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (, an area of roughly and about across: about the size of France). It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than long, and between hi ...
south of the
Skelton Glacier
Skelton Glacier is a large glacier flowing from the polar plateau into the Ross Ice Shelf at Skelton Inlet on the Hillary Coast, south of Victoria Land, Antarctica.
Discovery and naming
Named after the Skelton Inlet by the New Zealand party o ...
in the
Ross Dependency
The Ross Dependency is a region of Antarctica defined by a sector originating at the South Pole, passing along longitudes 160° east to 150° west, and terminating at latitude 60° south. It is claimed by New Zealand, a claim accepted only b ...
, Antarctica.
[USGS Mount Discovery map sheet ST 57-60/10]
It was named by the
New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) is an adjudicating committee established to authorize the naming of features in the Ross Dependency on the Antarctic continent. It is composed of the members of the New Zealand Geographic Board pl ...
in association with
Mulock Inlet for Lieutenant
George Mulock
Captain George Francis Arthur Mulock, DSO, RN, FRGS (7 February 1882 – 26 December 1963) was an Anglo-Irish Royal Navy officer, cartographer and polar explorer who participated in an expedition to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedi ...
, Royal Navy, surveyor with the expedition.
Further reading
* Swithinbank, C. (1964),
To the Valley Glaciers That Feed the Ross Ice Shelf', The Geographical Journal, 130(1), 32–48. doi:10.2307/1794263
* S. BANNISTER, B.L.N. KENNETT,
Seismic Activity in the Transantarctic Mountains - Results from a Broadband Array Deployment', Terra Antartica 2002, 9(1),41-46
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* MARK W. SEEFELDT AND JOHN J. CASSANO, THOMAS R. PARISH,
Dominant Regimes of the Ross Ice Shelf Surface Wind Field during Austral Autumn 2005', NOVEMBER 2007, PP 1933 - 1955
* Richard Levy, David Harwood, Fabio Florindo, Francesca Sangiorgi, Robert Tripati, Hilmar von Eynatten, Edward Gasson, Gerhard Kuhn, Aradhna Tripati, Robert DeConto, Christopher Fielding, Brad Field, Nicholas Golledge, Robert McKay, Timothy Naish, Matthew Olney, David Pollard, Stefan Schouten, Franco Talarico, Sophie Warny, Veronica Willmott, Gary Acton, Kurt Panter, Timothy Paulsen, Marco Taviani, and SMS Science Team,
Antarctic ice sheet sensitivity to atmospheric CO2 variations in the early to mid-Miocene', PNAS first published February 22, 2016 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1516030113
References
Glaciers of Hillary Coast
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