Fegley Glacier
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 Location of the Fegley Glacier (bottom right) in the Transantarctic Mountains ( satellite image ) |
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Holland Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 24 ′ S , 162 ° 20 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Lennox King Glacier | |
The Fegley Glacier is a glacier in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Holland Range about 8 km north of Mount Allen Young flows into the Lennox-King Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Lieutenant Charles E. Fegley III. (* 1935), a member of the United States Navy engineering corps , who was primarily responsible for the operation of a nuclear reactor at McMurdo Station during Operation Deep Freeze in 1964 .
Web links
- Fegley Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fegley Glacier on geographic.org (English)