Burnette Glacier
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 The Burnette Glacier (bottom left) southwest of the Adare Peninsula |
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Admiralty Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 1 ′ S , 170 ° 3 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Moubray Bay , Southern Ocean | |
The Burnette Glacier is a steep glacier on the Borchgrevink coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Admiralty Mountains, it flows southeast between Honeycomb Ridge and Quartermain Point to Moubray Bay .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on 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 Robert L. Burnette of the United States Air Force , who on October 15 1958 when a Douglas C-124 crashed at Cape Roget, along with five other crew members, was killed.
Web links
- Burnette Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Burnette Glacier on geographic.org (English)