Bunner glacier
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 Topographic map (1: 250,000) of the Bear Peninsula with the Bunner Glacier |
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 28 ′ S , 110 ° 40 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Amundsen Sea , Southern Ocean | |
The Bunner Glacier is a glacier on the Walgreen Coast of Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . In the northeast of the Bear Peninsula, it flows along the Gurnon Peninsula into the Amundsen Sea .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after Donald R. Bunner, a member of an air unit of the United States Army in Operation Deep Freeze in 1965 and 1966.
Web links
- Bunner Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bunner Glacier on geographic.org (English)