Dickey Glacier
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 Map sheet with the DICKEY GLACIER east of the Surveyors Range |
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Surveyors Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 20 km | |
| Coordinates | 81 ° 35 ′ S , 161 ° 0 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Beaumont Bay , Ross Ice Shelf | |
The Dickey Glacier is a 20 km long glacier on the Shackleton Coast of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It flows north along the eastern flank of the Surveyors Range and reaches the Ross Ice Shelf via Beaumont Bay .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1965 after Captain Willie Mills Dickey of the United States Navy , the commander of support units supplying the Little America V research station in the winter of 1957.
Web links
- Dickey Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dickey Glacier on geographic.org (English)