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Carlyon Glacier

Glaciers and Ice Formations

Carlyon Glacier is a large glacier in Antarctica that flows east-southeast from the neve east of Mill Mountain to the Ross Ice Shelf at Cape Murray, on the Hillary Coast of the Ross Dependency. It was mapped in 1958 by the Darwin Glacier party during the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1956 to 1958, and the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it for R.A. Carlyon, a member of the mapping party alongside mountaineer Harry Ayres. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Classification
Protected Status
International Treaty Protected Area 1
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Caused By

Glaciation, Processes

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Glaciation via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Carlyon Glacier

In Discipline

Glaciology, Disciplines

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to discipline Glaciology via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Carlyon Glacier
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Antarctica

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Source GeoNames: GeoNames search results for Carlyon GlacierSearch result row
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Carlyon Glacier -79.6166667 160.0 Antarctica glacier(s)
Sources
1. Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty: Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty
Secretariat of the Antarctic TreatyArticle 2
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It designates Antarctica as a “natural reserve, devoted to peace and science” (Art. 2).
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Carlyon Glacier (Wikipedia)
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Carlyon Glacier (79°34′S 159°50′E) is a large glacier which flows east-southeast from the névé east of Mill Mountain to the Ross Ice Shelf at Cape Murray.
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Wikidata: Carlyon Glacier
Wikidata Q5043157, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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