
Lacroix Glacier () is a
glacier between
Suess Glacier
Suess Glacier () is a glacier between Canada Glacier and Lacroix Glacier, flowing south into Taylor Valley in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was charted and named by the British Antarctic Expedition under Scott, 1910–13, for Professor Eduard Sue ...
and
Matterhorn Glacier, which flows southeast into
Taylor Valley in
Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the
British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13
The ''Terra Nova'' Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913. Led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott, the expedition had various scientific and geographical objec ...
, under
Robert Falcon Scott, and named after
Alfred Lacroix
Antoine François Alfred Lacroix (4 February 186312 March 1948) was a French mineralogist and geologist. He was born in Mâcon, Saône-et-Loire.
Education
Lacroix completed a D. s Sc. in Paris in 1889, as student of Ferdinand André Fouqué. F ...
, as was
Mount Lacroix
Booth Island (or Wandel Island) is a rugged, Y-shaped island, long and rising to off the northwest coast of Kyiv Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica in the northeastern part of the Wilhelm Archipelago. The narrow passage between the island an ...
.
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References
Glaciers of McMurdo Dry Valleys
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