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Beaver Glacier (Ross Ice Shelf)
Beaver Glacier
is a
glacier
, long,
draining
the
coastal
mountains
of the
Queen Alexandra Range
just northwest of
Mount Fox
and entering the
Ross Ice Shelf
at
McCann Point
. It was named by the
New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition
after
the Beaver
aircraft
City of
Auckland
, which crashed in this area in
January 1960
.