Socks Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Socks 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 entering the west side of the Beardmore Glacier from the Queen Alexandra Range, about 18 miles up the glacier from the Ross Ice Shelf. Discovered by the BAE, 1907-09, and named for one of the ponies taken with the South Pole Party. "Socks", the last pony to survive the journey, disappeared in a crevasse on 7 December 1908, on Beardmore Glacier near the Socks Glacier. The loss of this horse, on whose meat the party was relying on for food, probably cos Shackleton the attainment of the South Pole.
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