Coley North Glacier
| Coley North Glacier | ||
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| location | James Ross Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 8 ′ S , 57 ° 15 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Erebus and Terror Golf | |
The Coley North Glacier ( English for Northern Coley Glacier ) is a short glacier on the east coast of the West Antarctic James Ross Island . It flows from a mountain basin north of the Coley Glacier along the north flank of the glacier in an east-southeast direction to the Erebus and Terror Gulf .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2006 based on the name of the Coley Glacier. It is named after John Alan Coley (* 1929), meteorological assistant to the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey on the station in Hope Bay in 1952 and 1953.
Web links
- Coley North Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)