Boyd glacier
| Boyd glacier | ||
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 Map sheet Boyd Glacier from 1969, the glacier is northeast of the center of the map |
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Ford Ranges | |
| length | 72 km | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 14 ′ S , 145 ° 25 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Sulzberger Ice Shelf | |
The Boyd Glacier (also known as the Ames Glacier ) is a heavily jagged glacier on the Saunders coast of the west Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . In the Ford Ranges it flows between the Bailey Ridge and Mount Douglass to the Sulzberger Ice Shelf .
It was discovered during overflights in 1934 during the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . Namesake is Vernon Davis Boyd (1907-1965), machinist of this expedition and member of the west base of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941). Byrd originally named the glacier after his father-in-law, Joseph Blanchard Ames (1846–1915).
Web links
- Boyd Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Boyd Glacier on geographic.org (English)