Commonwealth Glacier is a
glacier which flows in a southeasterly direction and enters the northern side of
Taylor Valley immediately west of
Mount Coleman, in
Victoria Land,
Antarctica. It was charted 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 ...
(BrAE ), under
Robert Falcon Scott, and named by them for the
Commonwealth of Australia, which made a financial grant to the BrAE and contributed two members to the
Western Geological Party which explored this area. The north end of the glacier is bounded by
Flint Ridge Flint Ridge () is a north-south trending ridge with a summit elevation of in the Asgard Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. On the west side of the ridge is Sagittate Hill, tall and mostly composed of exposed rock. At the south end of the ridge si ...
.
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
Further reading
* Steven A. ARCONE, Karl KREUTZ, '
GPR reflection profiles of Clark and Commonwealth Glaciers, Dry Valleys, Antarctica, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA
* Gayle L. Dana, Robert A. Wharton, Jr, Andrew G. Fountain, '
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References
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Glaciers of the Asgard Range
Glaciers of McMurdo Dry Valleys
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