Blue Glacier (Antarctica)
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Blue Glacier is a large glacier
which flows into Bowers Piedmont Glacier
about 10 miles (16.1 km) 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
A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...
which flows into Bowers Piedmont Glacier
Bowers Piedmont Glacier
Bowers Piedmont Glacier is a piedmont glacier on the coast of Victoria Land, covering about and lying just south of New Harbour. It merges at its south side with Blue Glacier. It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, but not named until the British Antarctic...
about 10 miles (16.1 km) south of New Harbour, in Victoria Land
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...
, Antarctica. It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott
Robert Falcon Scott
Captain Robert Falcon Scott, CVO was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13...
, 1901–04, who gave it this name because of its clear blue ice at the time of discovery.