Butler Glacier

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Butler Glacier
Topographic map of the Alexandra Mountains. The Butler Glacier separates the lettering ALEXANDRA and MOUNTAINS.

Topographic map of the Alexandra Mountains. The Butler Glacier separates the lettering ALEXANDRA and MOUNTAINS.

location Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
Mountains Alexandra Mountains
Coordinates 77 ° 24 ′  S , 152 ° 42 ′  W Coordinates: 77 ° 24 ′  S , 152 ° 42 ′  W
Butler Glacier (Antarctica)
Butler Glacier
drainage Sulzberger Bay
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The Butler Glacier is a wide glacier in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . It flows from the north side of the Edward VII Peninsula in the vicinity of Clark Peak in a mainly northeastern direction through the Alexandra Mountains to Sulzberger Bay .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1965. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after Lieutenant F. M. Butler, navigator on the icebreaker USS Glacier as part of the research trips in the area in January 1962.

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