Nimrod Glacier
glacier in Antarctica
The Nimrod Glacier (82°21′S 163°00′E) is a major glacier about 85 nautical miles (157 km; 98 mi) long, flowing from the polar plateau in a northerly direction through the Transantarctic Mountains into the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica.
Location
The Nimrod Glacier flows north between the Geologists and Miller Ranges, then northeasterly between the Churchill Mountains and Queen Elizabeth Range, and finally spills into Shackleton Inlet and the Ross Ice Shelf between Capes Wilson and Lyttelton.
It was photographed from the air by USN Operation Highjump, 1946–47. The name, given by US-ACAN, is in association with Shackleton Inlet and is for the Nimrod, the ship of the British Antarctic Expedition (1907–09) under Ernest Shackleton.
The mouth of the glacier is southeast of the Starshot Glacier and the Nursery Glacier.
It is north of Robb Glacier.
Icefalls
Worsley Icefalls
82°57′S 155°00′E
Icefalls near the head of Nimrod Glacier.
Seen by the northern party of the NZGSAE (1961-62) and presumbably named for Frank Worsley, member of the British Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-16, and Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition, 1921-22.
Cooper Icefalls
82°31′S 160°00′E.
The main icefalls of the Nimrod Glacier, in the vicinity of Kon-Tiki Nunatak.
Named by the southern party of the NZGSAE (1960-61) for Christopher Neville Cooper, a member of the expedition, and also a member of the New Zealand Alpine Club Antarctic Expedition, 1959-60.
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