Blaiklock Glacier | |
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Location of Blaiklock Glacier in
Antarctica | |
Location | Coats Land |
Coordinates | 80°30′S 29°51′W / 80.500°S 29.850°W |
Length | 16 nmi (30 km; 18 mi) |
Thickness | unknown |
Terminus | Shackleton Range |
Status | unknown |
The Blaiklock Glacier ( 80°30′S 29°51′W / 80.500°S 29.850°W) is a glacier 16 nautical miles (30 km) long, flowing north from Turnpike Bluff, then northwest to Mount Provender and Mount Lowe in the western part of the Shackleton Range, Antarctica. [1]
The glacier was first mapped in 1957 by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE), and named for Kenneth V. Blaiklock, the leader of the advance party of the CTAE in 1955–56 and a surveyor with the transpolar party in 1956–58. [1]
The Blaiklock Glacier is one of the larger of the glaciers in the Shackleton Range. [2] The glacier forms below Turnpike Bluff and Wyeth Heights. It flows north and then northeast between the Otter Highlands to the west and the Haskard Highlands to the east. [3] Small glaciers or snowfields trending east from Otter Highlands discharge into Blaiklock Glacier. [4] At its mouth it flows to the south of Nostoc Lake and Mount Provender. [3]