Name StatusOfficial ValidatedFeatureGlacierNZ Gazette Reference2012 (53) p.1477DatumRSRGD2000GeoTag[1] PositionDescriptionA glacier about 5 miles wide descending to the Ross Sea, where it becomes the Nordenskjold Ice Tongue. Discovered by the BAE, 1907-09, and named for Douglas (later Sir Douglas) Mawson, physicist with the expedition and a member of the South Magnetic Pole Party, who was later to become the leader of two other Antarctic expeditions, 1911-14 and 1929-31.
