Fendley Glacier
| Fendley Glacier | ||
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| location | Viktorialand , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Admiralty Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 27 km | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 18 ′ S , 168 ° 47 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Somow lake | |
The Fendley Glacier is a 27 km long glacier on the Pennell coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . from the Admiralty Mountains it flows northeast between Mount Cherry-Garrard and the Atkinson cliffs to the Somow Sea .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using geodetic surveys and aerial photographs from the United States Navy from 1960 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the glacier in 1964 after the technical officer Iman A. Fendley of the United States Air Force , who died on October 15, 1958 together with five other crew members in the crash of a Douglas C-124 Globemaster II at Cape Roget as part of an Operation Deep Freeze was killed.
Web links
- Fendley Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fendley Glacier on geographic.org (English)