Coley Glacier
| Coley Glacier | ||
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| location | James Ross Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| length | 8 kilometers | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 8 ′ 45 ″ S , 57 ° 17 ′ 49 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Erebus and Terror Gulf , Weddell Sea | |
The Coley Glacier is an 8 km long glacier on the east coast of the West Antarctic James Ross Island . It flows directly north of Cape Gage into the Erebus and Terror Gulf .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) surveyed the glacier in 1945 and 1953. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on September 4, 1957 after John Alan Coley (* 1929), FIDS meteorological assistant at the Hope Bay station in 1952 and 1953.
Web links
- Coley Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Coley Glacier on geographic.org (English)