Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Mill Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mill 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, about 15 miles wide, flowing in a north-west direction along the north side of the Dominion Range and entering the east side of the Beardmore Glacier. Discovered by the Southern Polar Party of the BAE, 1907-09, in December 1908, and named for Dr Hugh Robert Mill, British geographer and Antarctic expert who wrote the introduction to The Heart of the Antarctic, Shackletons Account of the expedition. Mill, who wrote The Siege of the Soth Pole, in 1901, prepared a bibliography of Antarctic literature. Later he wrote the standard biography of Shacketon. He was librarian of the Royal Geographical Society.
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