Battye Glacier

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Battye Glacier
Map showing the location of Battye Glacier
Map showing the location of Battye Glacier
Location of Battye Glacier in Antarctica
LocationMac. Robertson Land
Coordinates70°52′11″S 67°45′33″E / 70.86972°S 67.75917°E / -70.86972; 67.75917
Thicknessunknown
TerminusRadok Lake
Statusunknown

Battye Glacier (

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70°52′11″S 67°45′33″E / 70.86972°S 67.75917°E / -70.86972; 67.75917Coordinates: 70°52′11″S 67°45′33″E / 70.86972°S 67.75917°E / -70.86972; 67.75917) is a glacier flowing east into Radok Lake in the Aramis Range of the Prince Charles Mountains. It was plotted from Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions air photos taken in 1956 and 1960, and named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for , glaciologist at Wilkes Station in 1962.

See also[]

  • List of glaciers in the Antarctic
  • Glaciology

Further reading[]

  • Laybourn-Parry, Johanna; Wadham, Jemma (2014). Antarctic Lakes. p. 53. ISBN 9780199670499.
  • Wagner, Bernd; Cremer, Holger (2006). "Limnology and Sedimentary Record of Radok Lake, Amery Oasis, East Antarctica" (PDF). In Fütterer, Dieter Karl; Damaske, Detlef; Kleinschmidt, Georg; Miller, Hubert; Tessensohn, Franz (eds.). Antarctica: Contributions to Global Earth Sciences. New York: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. pp. 447–454. doi:10.1007/3-540-32934-X_57. ISBN 3-540-30673-0.

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