Leverett Glacier

Leverett Glacier
	Topographic map
location	Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
Mountains	Transantarctic Mountains
length	80 km (roughly estimated)
width	Max. 6.5 km (roughly estimated)
Coordinates	85 ° 38 ′ S , 147 ° 35 ′ W Coordinates: 85 ° 38 ′ S , 147 ° 35 ′ W
drainage	Ross Ice Shelf

The Leverett Glacier is about 80 km long and 6.5 km wide glacier in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . It flows from the Watson Escarpment in a northerly direction between the California Plateau and the Stanford Plateau and then west-northwest between the Tapley Mountains and the Harold Byrd Mountains in the area of the southwestern Gould Coast to the Ross Ice Shelf , which it flows east of the Scottish Estuary. Reached the glacier .

A geological team led by Laurence McKinley Gould (1896-1995) of the first Antarctic expedition (1928-1930) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd discovered him. Gould named the glacier after Frank Leverett (1859-1943), a geologist from the University of Michigan and an expert on the glacial geology of the central United States .

Over the Leverett Glacier, the South Pole Traverse leaves the Ross Ice Shelf near its southernmost point and leads up to the Polar Plateau .

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