Wright Upper Glacier
Wright Upper Glacier is an ice apron at the upper west end of Wright Valley in the Asgard Range, Antarctica. It is formed by a glacier flowing east from the inland ice plateau.Photo: Dturme, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 1,088 metres
- Description: glacier in Antarctica
- Also known as: “Upper Wright Glacier” and “Wright Glacier”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hawkins Cirque and Pentecost Cirque.
Hawkins Cirque
Valley
The Olympus Range is a primarily ice-free mountain range of Victoria Land, Antarctica, with peaks over 2,000 metres high, between Victoria Valley and McKelvey Valley on the north and Wright Valley on the south. Hawkins Cirque is situated 3 km north of Wright Upper Glacier.
Pentecost Cirque
Valley
The Olympus Range is a primarily ice-free mountain range of Victoria Land, Antarctica, with peaks over 2,000 metres high, between Victoria Valley and McKelvey Valley on the north and Wright Valley on the south. Pentecost Cirque is situated 4 km northeast of Wright Upper Glacier.
Kurasawa Pond
Lake
Kurasawa Pond is a pond in the northwestern part of the Labyrinth of Wright Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. It lies south of Dean Cirque and 0.5 nautical miles east of the Wright Upper Glacier terminus. Kurasawa Pond is situated 4 km east of Wright Upper Glacier.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Prentice Plateau and Labyrinth.
Prentice Plateau
Locality
The Olympus Range is a primarily ice-free mountain range of Victoria Land, Antarctica, with peaks over 2,000 metres high, between Victoria Valley and McKelvey Valley on the north and Wright Valley on the south. Prentice Plateau is situated 6 km north of Wright Upper Glacier.
Labyrinth
Locality
Photo: Dturme, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Labyrinth is an extensive flat upland area which has been deeply eroded, at the west end of Wright Valley, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was so named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition because the eroded dolerite of which it is formed gives an appearance of a labyrinth. Labyrinth is situated 6 km east of Wright Upper Glacier.
Wright Upper Glacier
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Wright Upper Glacier” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Upper Wright Glacier”
- Chinese: “萊特上冰川”
- German: “Oberer Wright-Gletscher”
- Italian: “ghiacciaio Wright superiore”
- Italian: “Ghiacciaio Wright superiore”
- Italian: “Wright Upper Glacier”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Øvre Wrightbreen”
- Swedish: “Upper Wright Glacier”
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