Alley glacier
| Alley glacier | ||
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| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 79 ° 58 ′ S , 158 ° 5 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Darwin glacier | |
The Alley Glacier is a glacier in the Australian Antarctic Territory . It drains the northern slopes of the Britannia Range near the Ward Tower and flows north to the Darwin Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after the American glaciologist Richard Blaine Alley (* 1957) from Pennsylvania State University , who studied the ice flows of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet as part of the United States Antarctic Program .
Web links
- Alley Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Alley Glacier on geographic.org (English)