Leay glacier
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 11 ′ S , 63 ° 55 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Girard Bay | |
The Leay Glacier is a glacier at the Graham Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows west of the Hotine Glacier in a north-westerly direction to Girard Bay .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot mapped it. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 after Petra Leay Searle (* 1928), wife of the British geographer Derek Searle and curator of maps for the Directorate of Overseas Surveys from 1953 to 1959.
Web links
- Leay Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Leay Glacier on geographic.org (English)