Bally glacier

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Bally glacier
location Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
length 10 km
Coordinates 81 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  S , 159 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 81 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  S , 159 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E
Bally Glacier (Antarctica)
Bally glacier
drainage Jorda Glacier

The Bally Glacier is a 10 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It occupies the central part of the Carlstrom Foothills in the Churchill Mountains and flows north along the eastern flank of Mount Blick to the Jorda Glacier .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2003 after John Bally of the Center for Astrophysics and Astronomy at the University of Colorado Boulder , 1992-1995 chief scientist of the United States Antarctic Program's expanded telescope project at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station .

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