Northcliffe Glacier () is a
glacier descending to the coast immediately east of
Davis Peninsula
The Davis Peninsula is an elongated ice-covered peninsula, wide, between Reid Glacier and Northcliffe Glacier. It was discovered in November 1912 by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Mawson, who named it for Captain John King Davis
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, in
Antarctica. It was discovered by the
Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911–14, under
Mawson
Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS FAA (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958) was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Sir Ernest Shackleton, he was a key expedition leader dur ...
, and named for
Lord Northcliffe, of London, a patron of the expedition.
See also
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List of glaciers in the Antarctic
There are many glaciers in the Antarctic. This set of lists does not include ice sheets, ice caps or ice fields, such as the Antarctic ice sheet, but includes glacial features that are defined by their flow, rather than general bodies of ice. Th ...
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Glaciology
References
Glaciers of Queen Mary Land
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