Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Mawson Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mawson 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 glacier which has its uppermost tributaries in the vicinity of Reckling Peak and Jarina Nunatak, flowing generally east then northwest for some 75km, and approximately 9.1km wide south of Bruce Point where it becomes the Nordenskjöld Ice Tongue projecting into the Ross Sea.
Discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition (Nimrod expedition, BAE), 1907-09, and named for Douglas (later Sir Douglas) Mawson, physicist with the expedition and a member of the South Magnetic Pole Party, who was later to become the leader of two other Antarctic expeditions, 1911-14 and 1929-31.
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