Burgess glacier
| Burgess glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Grosvenor Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 11 km | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 26 ′ S , 171 ° 55 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Mill Stream Glacier | |
The Burgess Glacier is an 11 kilometer long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Grosvenor Mountains it flows in a north-westerly direction through the Otway Massif to the Mill Stream Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after Robert William Burgess, ionospheric physicist with the United States Antarctic Research Program at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 1963.
Web links
- Burgess Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Burgess Glacier on geographic.org (English)