Taylor Glacier
The Taylor Glacier is a glacier in Antarctica about 35 nautical miles long, flowing from the plateau of Victoria Land into the western end of Taylor Valley, north of the Kukri Hills.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Eli Duke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Blood Falls.
Blood Falls
Waterfall
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Blood Falls is an outflow of an iron oxide–tainted plume of saltwater, flowing from the tongue of Taylor Glacier onto the ice-covered surface of West Lake Bonney in the Taylor Valley of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Victoria Land, East Antarctica.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Claridge Terrace and Campbell Terrace.
Claridge Terrace
Locality
Claridge Terrace is a relatively horizontal area, 0.75 mile square with a median elevation of 1050 meters, between Mount J. J. Thomson and the northern wall of Taylor Valley, Victoria Land.
Campbell Terrace
Locality
Roa Ridge is a bow-shaped ridge, 5 mi long in the Asgard Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. For much of its extent, it separates Matterhorn Glacier and Lacroix Glacier. Named by New Zealand Geographic Board in 1998. Roa is a Māori word meaning “long” ridge. Campbell Terrace is situated 10 km northeast of Taylor Glacier.
Taylor Glacier
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 420 metres
- Description: Antarctic glacier
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-77.73334° or 77° 44′ southLongitude
162.16673° or 162° 10′ 0″ eastElevation
420 metres (1,378 feet)Open location code
2VJ47588+MMOpenStreetMap ID
node 5493071855OpenStreetMap feature
natural=glacier
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Thai—“Taylor Glacier” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Ледник Тейлър”
- Bulgarian: “Тейлър”
- Cebuano: “Taylor Glacier”
- Chinese: “泰勒冰川”
- Czech: “Taylorův ledovec”
- Dutch: “Taylorgletsjer”
- Esperanto: “Glaĉero Taylor”
- French: “glacier Taylor”
- French: “Glacier Taylor”
- German: “Taylor-Gletscher”
- Hebrew: “קרחון טיילור”
- Indonesian: “Gletser Taylor”
- Italian: “Ghiacciaio Taylor (Terra Vittoria)”
- Italian: “Ghiacciaio Taylor”
- Japanese: “テイラー氷河”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Taylorbreen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Taylorbreen”
- Norwegian: “Taylorbreen”
- Portuguese: “Geleira de Taylor”
- Russian: “Ледник Тейлора”
- Slovenian: “ledenik Taylor”
- Spanish: “Glaciar Taylor”
- Swedish: “Taylor Glacier”
- Tamil: “டெய்லர் பனியாறு”
- Thai: “ธารน้ำแข็งเทย์เลอร์”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Bonney Riegel and J. J. Thomson, Mount.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Taylor Glacier”. Photo: Eli Duke, CC BY-SA 2.0.