Minerva Glacier
Minerva Glacier is a tongue-shaped glacier that flows northwest into the valley between Tentacle Ridge and Gorgons Head in the Cook Mountains. It was named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee after the goddess Minerva, in association with the names from Greek mythology grouped in this area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Starbuck Cirque.
Starbuck Cirque
Valley
The Cook Mountains is a group of mountains bounded by the Mulock and Darwin glaciers in Antarctica. They are south of the Worcester Range and north of the Darwin Mountains and the Britannia Range.
Minerva Glacier
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 1,204 metres
- Description: glacier in Ross Dependency, Antarctica
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
Discover Minerva Glacier from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Minerva Glacier” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Minerva Glacier”
- German: “Minerva-Gletscher”
- Italian: “Ghiacciaio Minerva”
- Swedish: “Minerva Glacier”
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Highlights include Mercury Glacier and Tentacle Ridge.
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Minerva Glacier”. Photo: ravas51, CC BY-SA 2.0.