Koettlitz Névé () is a roughly circular
névé
Névé is a young, granular type of snow which has been partially melted, refrozen and compacted, yet precedes the form of ice. This type of snow is associated with glacier formation through the process of ''nivation''. Névé that survives a ...
about wide at the head of
Koettlitz Glacier
Koettlitz Glacier is a large Antarctic glacier lying west of Mount Morning and Mount Discovery in the Royal Society Range, flowing from the vicinity of Mount Cocks northeastward between Brown Peninsula and the mainland into the ice shelf of McMurdo ...
,
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau. It ...
, Antarctica. The névé is bounded to the west and south by
Mount Talmadge,
Mount Rees and
Mount Cocks
Mount Cocks in Antarctica is a mountain at the head of the Koettlitz Glacier in southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. The summit, which is ASL, is NNE of the junction of the Cocks and Skelton Glaciers at the southern end of the Royal Society Rang ...
, and to the east by
Mount Morning
Mount Morning is a shield volcano at the foot of the Transantarctic Mountains in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It lies from Ross Island. Mount Morning rises to an elevation of and is almost entirely mantled with snow and ice. A wide summit calder ...
. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1994 in association with Koettlitz Glacier.
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References
Snow fields of the Ross Dependency
Landforms of Victoria Land
Scott Coast
Névés of Antarctica
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