Battye glacier
| Battye glacier | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 52 ′ S , 67 ° 46 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Radok Lake | |
The Battye Glacier is a glacier in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the Aramis Range of the Prince Charles Mountains, it flows from Kar Lovushka in an easterly direction to Radok Lake .
It was mapped using aerial photographs taken by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1956 and 1960. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it in 1966 after Alastair Cameron P. Battye (* 1936), a glaciologist at Wilkes Station in 1962 .
Web links
- Battye Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Battye Glacier on geographic.org (English)