Lennox-King Glacier is a large
valley glacier
A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers or streams ove ...
, about long, draining
Bowden Névé and flowing northeast between the
Holland Range and the
Queen Alexandra Range of Antarctica to enter
Richards Inlet,
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 ...
. It was named by the
New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition The New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) describes a series of scientific explorations of the continent Antarctica. The expeditions were notably active throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
Features named by the expeditions 1957 ...
(1959–60) for Lieutenant Commander
James Lennox-King,
Royal New Zealand Navy, leader at
Scott Base, 1960.
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See also
* Vertigo Bluff
References
Glaciers of the Ross Dependency
Shackleton Coast
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