Singer Glacier

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Singer Glacier (

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74°16′S 113°57′W / 74.267°S 113.950°W / -74.267; -113.950Coordinates: 74°16′S 113°57′W / 74.267°S 113.950°W / -74.267; -113.950) is a glacier flowing east-northeast from Martin Peninsula between Slichter Foreland and Smythe Shoulder into Dotson Ice Shelf, on Walgreen Coast, Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1959–67, and Landsat imagery, 1972–73. Named in 1977 by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after , geophysicist, University of California, Los Angeles, a member of the United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) winter party at South Pole Station, 1973.[1]

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  1. ^ "Singer Glacier". Geographical names. Retrieved 16 January 2018.

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