Borchgrevink Glacier () is a large glacier in the

Victory Mountains The Victory Mountains () are a major group of mountains in Victoria Land, Antarctica, about long and wide, which is bounded primarily by Mariner and Tucker glaciers and the Ross Sea. They are north of the Mountaineer Range, east of the Freyber ...

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 78th parallel south, 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Ant ...

, Antarctica. It drains south between

Malta Plateau The Malta Plateau () is an ice-covered plateau of about extent in the Victory Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The plateau is irregular in shape and is bounded on the south and west by Mariner Glacier, on the north by tributaries to Tra ...

and

Daniell Peninsula Daniell Peninsula () is the large peninsula between Cape Daniell and Cape Jones on the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It is an elongated basalt dome similar to Adare Peninsula and Hallett Peninsula and rises to . It is partly separated from ...

, and thence projects into Glacier Strait,

Ross Sea The Ross Sea is a deep bay of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica, between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land and within the Ross Embayment, and is the southernmost sea on Earth. It derives its name from the British explorer James Clark Ross who ...

, as a floating glacier tongue.

Exploration and naming

It was named by the

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, 1957–58, for

Carsten Borchgrevink Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink (1 December 186421 April 1934) was a Norwegian polar explorer and a pioneer of Antarctic travel. He inspired Sir Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen, and others associated with the Heroic Age ...

, leader of the

British Antarctic Expedition, 1898–1900 The ''Southern Cross'' Expedition, otherwise known as the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898–1900, was the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, and the forerunner of the more celebrated journeys of Robert Falcon Sc ...

. Borchgrevink visited the area in February 1900 and first observed the seaward portion of the glacier.

Geography

The Borchgrevink Glacier forms between Mount Frosch and Mount Lepanto in the Victory Mountains to the south of

Trafalgar Glacier Tucker Glacier () is a major valley glacier of Victoria Land, Antarctica, about long, flowing southeast between the Admiralty Mountains and the Victory Mountains to the Ross Sea. There is a snow saddle at the glacier's head, just west of Homer ...

, and flows southeast and then south to the Ross Sea. It is joined by several small glaciers from the left (northeast) including Ingham Glacier just before O'Neal Ridge and Humphries Glacier just after that ridge. Humphries Glacier saddles with Whitehall Glacier, which flows northeast between the mainland and

. Past Stever Ridge to its west, the Borchgrevink Glacier is joined by Behr Glacier, Hand Glacier, which flows past both sides of Nelson Nunatak, and Line Glacier. The Bargh Glacier and Langevad Glacier join it from the Daniell Peninsula to the east. Past Cape Crossfire it enters Lady Newnes Bay beside

Mariner Glacier The Mariner Glacier () is a major glacier over long, descending southeast from the plateau of Victoria Land, Antarctica, between Mountaineer Range and Malta Plateau, and terminating at Lady Newnes Bay, Ross Sea, where it forms the floating Ma ...

, forming the Borchgrevink Glacier Tongue, which extends towards Coulman Island.

Left tributaries

Tributaries from the left (northeast) include,

Ingham Glacier

. A tributary glacier west of Humphries Glacier, flowing south into Borchgrevink Glacier in the Victory Mountains. Mapped by the

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(USGS) from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-62. Named by the United States

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(US-ACAN) for Clayton E. Ingham, New Zealand geophysicist at Hallett Station, 1957.

Humphries Glacier

. Steep tributary glacier just east of Ingham Glacier, flowing generally southwest ward to join Borchgrevink Glacier northwest ward of Mount Prior, in the Victory Mountains. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-62. Named by US-ACAN for John G. Humphries, New Zealand ionospheric scientist at Hallett Station, 1957.

Bargh Glacier

. A glacier long in the southwest part of Daniell Peninsula. It lies north of Langevad Glacier, whose stream it parallels, and flows southwest to enter Borchgrevink Glacier. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-64. Named by US-ACAN for Kenneth A. Bargh, seismologist at Hallett Station, 1958.

Langevad Glacier

. A glacier located south of Bargh Glacier and just west of Narrow Neck, draining southwest from the Daniell Peninsula into the lower part of Borchgrevink Glacier. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-64. Named by US-ACAN for Michael W. Langevad, electronics technician at

Hallett Station Cape Hallett is a snow-free area (Antarctic oasis) on the northern tip of the Hallett Peninsula on the Ross Sea coast of Victoria Land, East Antarctica. Cape Adare lies to the north. History In 1956, during Operation Deep Freeze II, was dama ...

, 1957.

Right tributaries

Tributaries from the right (southwest ) include,

Behr Glacier

. Steep tributary glacier, long, flowing east along the north side of Clapp Ridge to join Borchgrevink Glacier. The glacier first appears on a 1960 New Zealand map compiled from United States Navy aerial photographs. Named by US-ACAN for Colonel Robert Behr, United States Air Force, who was of assistance in the review of United States policy toward Antarctica in 1970-71 period.

Hand Glacier

. A deeply entrenched valley glacier that drains the east slopes of Malta Plateau and flows east along the south side of Clapp Ridge into the Borchgrevink Glacier, in the Victory Mountains, Victoria Land. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-64. Named by US-ACAN for Cadet H. Hand, biologist at McMurdo Station, 1967-68.

Line Glacier

. A glacier that drains the south part of the east slopes of Malta Plateau and flows east between Collins Peak and Mount Alberts into Borchgrevink Glacier, in Victoria Land. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-64. Named by US-ACAN for Kenneth Line, traverse engineer with the USARP glaciological party at Roosevelt Island, 1967-68.

Other features

Nelson Nunatak

. A mainly ice-covered nunatak in the middle of Hand Glacier. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-64. Named by US-ACAN for Thomas R. Nelson, United States Navy, construction mechanic at

McMurdo Station McMurdo Station is an American Antarctic research station on the southern tip of Ross Island. It is operated by the United States through the United States Antarctic Program (USAP), a branch of the National Science Foundation. The station is ...

, 1967.

Cape Crossfire

. A promontory at the southeast extremity of Malta Plateau, marking the point of convergence of the Mariner Glacier from the west and Borchgrevink Glacier from the north. The name alludes to the converging flow of ice at this feature from different directions, and was given by

New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) is an adjudicating committee established to authorize the naming of features in the Ross Dependency on the Antarctic continent. It is composed of the members of the New Zealand Geographic Board pl ...

(NZ-APC) in 1966.

Borchgrevink Glacier Tongue

. The large seaward extension of the Borchgrevink Glacier. It discharges into Glacier Strait, Ross Sea, just south of

Cape Jones Daniell Peninsula () is the large peninsula between Cape Daniell and Cape Jones on the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It is an elongated basalt dome similar to Adare Peninsula and Hallett Peninsula and rises to . It is partly separated from ...

. Named in association with Borchgrevink Glacier.

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