Carey Glacier

Carey Glacier
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location	Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Mountains	Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates	78 ° 53 ′ S , 83 ° 55 ′ W Coordinates: 78 ° 53 ′ S , 83 ° 55 ′ W
drainage	Minnesota Glacier

The Carey Glacier is a glacier in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It flows on the east side of Miller Peak in the southern end of the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains and flows in a south-southeast direction into the Minnesota Glacier .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own measurements and using aerial photographs of the United States Navy between 1957 and 1959. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after Lieutenant David Wellington Carey Jr. (1924-1956), pilot of the US Navy flight squadron VX-6, which was killed on October 18, 1956 when a Lockheed P2V Neptune crashed in McMurdo Sound .

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