Battye Glacier
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Glacier in Antarctica
Battye Glacier | |
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![]() ![]() Location of Battye Glacier in Antarctica | |
Location | Mac. Robertson Land |
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Thickness | unknown |
Terminus | Radok Lake |
Status | unknown |
Battye Glacier (70°52′11″S 67°45′33″E / 70.86972°S 67.75917°E / -70.86972; 67.75917Coordinates: WikiMiniAtlas
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.
References[]
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Battye Glacier". (content from the Geographic Names Information System)
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