Bingley Glacier
| Bingley Glacier | ||
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 Location of the Bingley Glacier (upper center right) on the west flank of the Beardmore Glacier ( satellite image ) |
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| location | Ross Dependency , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Alexandra Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 13 km (roughly estimated) | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 29 ′ S , 167 ° 10 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Beardmore Glacier | |
The Bingley Glacier is an Antarctic glacier approximately eight miles in length that drains from the southern slopes of Mount Kirkpatrick , Mount Dickerson, and Barnes Peak , and joins the Beardmore Glacier north of the Adams Mountains .
The glacier was discovered by participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907–1909) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton . It is named after Bingley , a town in West Yorkshire and ancestral home of the Ernest Shackletons family.
See also
Web links
- Bingley Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bingley Glacier on geographic.org (English)
- Bingley Glacier. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 61 (English)