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Slessor Glacier
Map showing the location of Slessor Glacier
Map showing the location of Slessor Glacier
Location of Slessor Glacier in Antarctica
LocationCoats Land
Coordinates79°50′S 28°30′W / 79.833°S 28.500°W / -79.833; -28.500
Length75 nmi (139 km; 86 mi)
Width50 nmi (93 km; 58 mi)
Thicknessunknown
TerminusFilchner-Ronne Ice Shelf
Statusunknown

The Slessor Glacier is a glacier at least 140 km (75 nmi) long and 90 km (50 nmi) wide, flowing west into the Filchner Ice Shelf to the north of the Shackleton Range. First seen from the air and mapped by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE) in 1956. Named by the CTAE for RAF Marshal Sir John Slessor, chairman of the expedition committee.[1]

  1. ^ "Slessor Glacier, Antarctica". Geographical Names. Retrieved 25 January 2018.

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Slessor Glacier

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Shackleton Range

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east–west direction for about 100 miles (160 km) between the Slessor and Recovery Glaciers. The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE), which in...

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List of glaciers of Coats Land

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Gordon Glacier

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Pass, flowing through the Shackleton Range to finally meet the Slessor Glacier. The glacier was first mapped in 1957 by the CTAE, and named after George...

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Schimper Glacier

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Herbert Mountains, Shackleton Range, flowing north-northeast into Slessor Glacier. The glacier was photographed from the air by the U.S. Navy, 1967, and surveyed...

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Slessor Peak

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Slessor Peak (66°31′S 64°58′W / 66.517°S 64.967°W / -66.517; -64.967) is a mainly ice-covered peak, 2,370 m, standing at the southwest end of Bruce...

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Byway Glacier

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Byway Glacier (66°30′S 65°12′W / 66.500°S 65.200°W / -66.500; -65.200) is a glacier flowing west from Slessor Peak and joining Erskine Glacier just...

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Parry Point

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500; -30.333) is a prominent rock outcrop lying north of the mouth of Slessor Glacier and 25 nautical miles (46 km) southwest of Mount Faraway in the Theron...

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Fuchs Dome

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large glaciers. It is a rectangular horst rising above major fault zones now under the Slessor Glacier to the north and Recovery Glacier glacier to the...

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Stratton Glacier

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entering the Slessor Glacier between Mount Provender and Mount Skidmore. It is one of the large glaciers in the range. List of glaciers in the Antarctic...

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Shotton Snowfield

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Warden Pass

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parties arranged to rendez vous back at their airdrop depot on the Slessor Glacier on Christmas Day. But delayed by bad weather, Peter Clarkson, geologist...

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List of Antarctic ice streams

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Glacier Shimizu Ice Stream Shirase Glacier Slessor Glacier Smith Glacier Support Force Glacier Stancomb-Wills Glacier Thwaites Glacier Totten Glacier...

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Mount Sheffield

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Pioneers Escarpment

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in Antarctica, interrupted by occasional bluffs and spurs, between Slessor Glacier on the north and Shotton Snowfield on the south, in the Shackleton...

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Herbert Mountains

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Rocky mountain, 915 metres (3,002 ft), at the junction of Gordon and Slessor Glaciers on the north side of the Shackleton Range. First mapped in 1957 by...

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Purmerul Peak

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Lyttleton, 20 km south-southeast of Crookes Peak and 16.11 km northwest of Slessor Peak. British mapping in 1976. British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000...

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Vologes Ridge

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Balder Point, 20.55 km northwest of Spur Point and 36.9 km east by north of Slessor Peak. British mapping in 1976. British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000...

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Semela Ridge

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Aleksandrov Peak, 14.58 km south by west of Purmerul Peak and 10.8 km west of Slessor Peak. British mapping in 1976. British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000...

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List of recipients of the Polar Medal

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Geologist, British North Greenland Expedition, July 1952 to August 1954 James Slessor MARR Antarctic 1954. , British North Greenland Expedition, July 1952 to...

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List of polio survivors

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List of Scots

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Raimund Abraham

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Architecture". Design Quarterly. 122 (122): 35–36. JSTOR 4091084. Beaver, Robin; Slessor, Catherine (eds.). Contemporary Architecture CA1, CA1 Series, Volume 1...

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January 1915

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Confederate States Army during the American Civil War (b. 1831); Mary Slessor, Scottish Christian missionary, known for her missionary work and promoting...

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1943 Birthday Honours

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Maxwell Drummond, CB, DSO, OBE, MC. Acting Air Marshal John Cotesworth Slessor, CB, DSO, MC. Civil Division James Scott Pringle, CB, OBE, ACGI, MIEE....

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