Ball Glacier (James Ross Island)
| Ball Glacier | ||
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| location | James Ross Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 20 ′ S , 57 ° 23 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Markham Bay , Weddell Sea | |
The ball Glacier is a small glacier on the southeast coast of the West Antarctic James Ross Island . It flows northeast to Markham Bay , which it reaches between Redshaw Point and Hamilton Point .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1995 after Harold William Ball (* 1926), from 1966 to 1986 curator of the paleontological collection of the Natural History Museum and author of the scientific report No. 24 of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey on fossils in the area James Ross Island.
Web links
- Ball Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ball Glacier on geographic.org (English)