Bartley Glacier
| Bartley Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Type | Hanging glacier | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 32 ' S , 162 ° 13' E | |
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The Bartley Glacier is a hanging glacier on the south face of the Wright Valley immediately west of the Meserve Glacier in East Antarctica Victoria Land .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him after Ollie Barrett Bartley (1935-1957), a United States Navy builder who was killed on January 14, 1957 after his vehicle was broken through the sea ice on the Hut Point Peninsula .
Web links
- Bartley Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bartley Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Seebee eigth ice cap victim. In: The Spokesman-Review , Spokane , Washington , United States, January 16, 1957 (accessed from Google News on April 1, 2016).