Blue Glacier
Blue Glacier is a large glacier which flows into Bowers Piedmont Glacier about 10 nautical miles south of New Harbour, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott, 1901–04, who gave it this name because of its clear blue ice at the time of discovery.- Glacier with an elevation of around 230 metres (760 feet)
- Description: glacier in Antarctica
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hobbs Glacier.
Hobbs Glacier
Locality
Hobbs Ridge is a prominent arc-shaped ridge which… Hobbs Glacier is situated 6 km south of Blue Glacier.
Blue Glacier
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-77.83333° or 77° 50′ south
Longitude
164.16667° or 164° 10′ east
Open location code
2VJ65588+MM
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Blue Glacier” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Blue Glacier”
- Chinese: “布盧冰川”
- Dutch: “Blue Glacier”
- German: “Blue Glacier”
- Hebrew: “קרחון בלו”
- Italian: “Blue Glacier”
- Italian: “Ghiacciaio Blue”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bluebreen”
- Swedish: “Blue Glacier (glaciär i Antarktis)”
- Swedish: “Blue Glacier”
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