DeVries Glacier
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 Topographic map with the Byrd Glacier and the DeVries Glacier (top left) |
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 20 ′ S , 157 ° 30 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Byrd glacier | |
The DeVries Glacier is a steep glacier in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . It flows from the southern slopes of the Britannia Range immediately east of the Peckham Glacier to the Byrd Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1965. It is named after the biologist Arthur Leeland DeVries (* 1935), who worked from 1961 to 2002 as part of the United States Antarctic Program with the protection of fish species in McMurdo Sound from freezing .
Web links
- DeVries Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- DeVries Glacier on geographic.org (English)