Baxter Glacier
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Baxter Glacier is a glacier
nurtured by icefalls from Flight Deck Neve
, flowing northeast between Flagship Mountain
and Mount Davidson
to enter Fry Glacier
, in Convoy Range
, Victoria Land
. It was named by a 1976–77 Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE) field party after James K. Baxter
, New Zealand
poet and social critic.
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...
nurtured by icefalls from Flight Deck Neve
Flight Deck Neve
Flight Deck Neve is an elevated and unusually flat glacier neve, about 5 nautical miles by 3 nautical miles , between Flagship Mountain and Mount Razorback in the Convoy Range, Victoria Land. The feature is the primary source of ice to the east-flowing Benson Glacier at Scuppers Icefalls...
, flowing northeast between Flagship Mountain
Flagship Mountain
Flagship Mountain is a prominent, conical rock peak, 1,720 m, surmounting the south part of the large rock mass between Northwind and Atka Glaciers in the Convoy Range, Victoria Land...
and Mount Davidson
Mount Davidson (Antarctica)
Mount Davidson is a mountain, high, standing at the head of Albrecht Penck Glacier in Victoria Land. It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition which named it for a member of the ship's company of the Morning, relief ship to the expedition....
to enter Fry Glacier
Fry Glacier
Fry Glacier is a glacier draining the slopes at the northeast corner of the Convoy Range and flowing along the south end of the Kirkwood Range into Tripp Bay, Victoria Land. First charted by the British Antarctic Expedition and named for A.M. Fry, a contributor to the expedition....
, in Convoy Range
Convoy Range
Convoy Range is a broad mountain range, much of it with an almost flat, plateau-like summit, extending south from the Fry Saddle and ending at Mackay Glacier...
, 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...
. It was named by a 1976–77 Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE) field party after James K. Baxter
James K. Baxter
James Keir Baxter was a poet, and is a celebrated figure in New Zealand society.-Biography:Baxter was born in Dunedin to Archibald Baxter and Millicent Brown and grew up near Brighton. He was named after James Keir Hardie, a founder of the British Labour Party. His father had been a conscientious...
, New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
poet and social critic.