Auster Glacier () is a
glacier
A glacier (; or ) is a persistent body of dense ice, a form of rock, that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires ...
about wide, flowing northwest into the southeast extremity of
Amundsen Bay
Amundsen Bay, also known as Ice Bay, is a long embayment wide, close west of the Tula Mountains in Enderby Land, Antarctica. The bay was seen as a large pack-filled recession in the coastline by Sir Douglas Mawson on 14 January 1930. Seen by Ca ...
. It was sighted in October 1956 by an
Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions
The Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE ) is the historical name for the Australia: Antarctic Program#Australian Antarctic program, Australian Antarctic Program (AAP) administered for Australia by the Australian Antarctic D ...
(ANARE) party led by
P.W. Crohn, and named after the
Auster
Auster may refer to:
Places
* Auster Glacier, located in East Antarctica
* Auster Islands, East Antarctica
* Auster Pass, located in East Antarctica
* Auster Point, located in West Antarctica
Other uses
* Auster Aircraft, a former British air ...
aircraft used by ANARE in coastal exploration.
At its southwest side is
Mount Tod.
See also
*
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 ...
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Glaciology
Glaciology (; ) is the scientific study of glaciers, or, more generally, ice and natural phenomena that involve ice.
Glaciology is an interdisciplinary Earth science that integrates geophysics, geology, physical geography, geomorphology, clim ...
References
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Glaciers of Enderby Land
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