Bayly glacier
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 38 ′ S , 61 ° 48 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Bancroft Bay | |
The Bayly Glacier is a glacier on the Danco Coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows there in a northerly direction to the head end of Bancroft Bay , which it reaches west of Harris Peak .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped it using aerial photographs from Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. from 1956 to 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the British geologist Maurice Brian Bayly (* 1929), who worked for the 1956 survey on the station on Danco Island and in February 1957 an ascent route from explored the Reclus Peninsula to the inland plateau.
Web links
- Bayly Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bayly Glacier on geographic.org (English)