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List of glaciers of Kemp Land

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Following is a list of glaciers of Kemp Land in Antarctica. This list may not reflect recently named glaciers in Kemp Land.

Cosgrove Glacier

67°29′S 59°10′E.

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.

Hoseason Glacier

67°06′S 58°07′E.

Glacier 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi) long, flowing north into 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.

Mulebreen

67°28′S 59°21′E.

Glacier 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) wide, flowing west-north-west into 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).

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