Donnally Glacier

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Donnally Glacier
Card sheet with the DONNALLY GLACIER in the left half

Card sheet with the DONNALLY GLACIER in the left half

location Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
length 19 km
Coordinates 81 ° 37 ′  S , 159 ° 18 ′  E Coordinates: 81 ° 37 ′  S , 159 ° 18 ′  E
Donnally Glacier (Antarctica)
Donnally Glacier
drainage Starshot glacier
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The Donnally Glacier is a 19 kilometer long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Churchill Mountains, it flows east along the northern flank of the Swithinbank Range to the Starshot Glacier .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1965 after Commander Edward W. Donnally of the United States Navy , head of the support unit at McMurdo Station in the Antarctic winter of 1962.

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