Hale glacier

Hale glacier
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location	Thurston Island , West Antarctica
length	10 km
Coordinates	72 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ S , 100 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 72 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ S , 100 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ W
drainage	Abbot Ice Shelf

The Hale Glacier is a 10 km long glacier on Thurston Island off the Eights coast of west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It flows east of Mount Simpson in a south-westerly direction to the Abbot Ice Shelf in Peacock Sound .

Its position was determined from aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy VX-6 squadron in January 1960. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1960 after Lieutenant Bill Joe Hale, helicopter pilot aboard the USCGC icebreaker Burton Island during the US Navy's research expedition to the Bellingshausen Sea in February 1960 .

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