Birley Glacier
| Birley Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Bruce Plateau | |
| length | 16 km | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 58 ′ S , 64 ° 20 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Barilari Bay | |
The Birley Glacier is a 16 km long glacier on the Graham Coast in western Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows from the Bruce Plateau in a westerly direction into the eastern reaches of the Barilari Bay .
It was first sighted and roughly mapped in 1909 during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910). Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill carried out a new mapping. Rymill named the glacier after Kenneth Peel Birley (1868–1941), a sponsor of his research trip.
Web links
- Birley Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Birley Glacier on geographic.org (English)