Carlyon Glacier
Carlyon Glacier is a large glacier which flows east-southeast from the névé east of Mill Mountain to the Ross Ice Shelf at Cape Murray. It was mapped in 1958 by the Darwin Glacier party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, and named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee for R.A.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Carlyon Glacier
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 50 metres
- Description: glacier in Antarctica
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Carlyon Glacier” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Carlyon Glacier”
- Chinese: “卡萊恩冰川”
- German: “Carlyon-Gletscher”
- Italian: “Ghiacciaio Carlyon”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Carlyonbreen”
- Swedish: “Carlyon Glacier”
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