Beaver Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Beaver Glacier (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Glacier (12)
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A small glacier 12 miles long and approximately 2 to 4 miles wide flowing from the coastal mountains of the Queen Alexandra Range immediately north west of Mt Fox, into the Ross Ice Shelf 5 miles south east of Richards Inlet. Named for the Trans-Antarctic Expedition Beaver, "City of Auckland" which was handed over to the RNZAF in 1958, and which crashed in this area in January 1960 while the 1959-60 Geological and Survey Expedition was being air-lifted from the Ross Ice Shelf to the edge of the Polar Plateau. Named by the NZGSAE, 1959-60.
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