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List of glaciers of Kemp Land

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Kemp Land is a thin sliver of Antarctica including, and lying inland from, the Kemp Coast . Part of the Australian Antarctic claim , it is defined as lying between 56° 25' E and 59° 34' E, and, as with other sectors of the Antarctic, is deemed being limited by the 60° S parallel. It is bounded in the east by Mac. Robertson Land and in the west by Enderby Land . Kemp Land includes one major group of islands, the Øygarden Group .

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5-864: Following is a list of glaciers of Kemp Land in Antarctica. This list may not reflect recently named glaciers in Kemp Land . Download coordinates as: 67°29′S 59°10′E  /  67.483°S 59.167°E  / -67.483; 59.167 . Small glacier entering the south part of Stefansson Bay just west of Mulebreen. Seen from an Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) aircraft in 1956 and later mapped. Named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for M. Cosgrove, radio supervisor at Mawson Station , 1959. 67°06′S 58°07′E  /  67.100°S 58.117°E  / -67.100; 58.117 . Glacier 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi) long, flowing north into

10-648: The sea between West Stack and East Stack , 15 nautical miles (28 km; 17 mi) east of Edward VIII Bay . Roughly mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition , 1936-37. Visited in 1954 by an ANARE sledging party and named by ANCA for Richard Hoseason of ANARE, who perished on a field trip at Heard Island in 1952. 67°28′S 59°21′E  /  67.467°S 59.350°E  / -67.467; 59.350 . Glacier 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) wide, flowing west-north-west into

15-807: The southeast side of Stefansson Bay . First mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition 1936-37, and named Mulebreen (the snout glacier). Between 1980 and 2023 the glacier advanced by 13.5km. Not: Dovers Glacier. 66°40′S 56°29′E  /  66.667°S 56.483°E  / -66.667; 56.483 . Small glacier, close east of Seaton Glacier , flowing southward into Edward VIII Ice Shelf . Mapped from aerial photos taken by ANARE in 1956, and named for Sgt. R. Rippon, RAAF, airframe fitter at Mawson in 1959. 67°12′S 56°00′E  /  67.200°S 56.000°E  / -67.200; 56.000 . The western of two glaciers entering

20-624: The southern part of Edward VIII Bay . Seen by an ANARE party led by Robert Dovers in November 1954. Named by ANCA for the wife of Robert Dovers, officer in charge and surveyor at Mawson Station in 1954. 66°46′S 56°25′E  /  66.767°S 56.417°E  / -66.767; 56.417 . Glacier 9 nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi) long, flowing northeast into Edward VIII Ice Shelf just south of Seaton Glacier . Photographed from ANARE aircraft in 1956. Named by ANCA for Flight Lt. H.O. Wilson, RAAF pilot at Mawson Station, 1959, who

25-473: Was killed in an aircraft accident shortly after his return to Australia. Kemp Land It reaches a height of 3,346 feet above sea level . Named after Peter Kemp , who, in the brig Magnet , is reported to have sighted land in 1833. In 1930, BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson in the Discovery delineated the coastline from the junction with Enderby Land to that with Mac. Robertson Land. In 1936

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