Foley Glacier
| Foley Glacier | ||
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| location | Thurston Island , West Antarctica | |
| length | 6 km | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ S , 101 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Bellingshausen lake | |
The Foley Glacier is a 6 km long glacier at the western end of Thurston Island off the Eights coast of the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It flows into the Bellingshausen Sea immediately east of Cape Petersen .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2003 after Kevin M. Foley of the United States Geological Survey , a computer specialist in the group for creating maps to determine glacier and coastal changes in Antarctica .
Web links
- Foley Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Foley Glacier on geographic.org (English)