Bowers Glacier

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Bowers Glacier
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Victory Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 72 ° 37 ′  S , 169 ° 3 ′  E Coordinates: 72 ° 37 ′  S , 169 ° 3 ′  E
Bowers Glacier (Antarctica)
Bowers Glacier
drainage Tucker Glacier

The Bowers Glacier is a glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Victory Mountains, it flows along the west side of Mount Northampton in a northerly direction to the Tucker Glacier .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1964 after the American meteorologist Chester H. Bowers, senior US representative on the Hallett Station in 1962.

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