Macy Glacier
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 View from the Catalunyan Saddle to the Macy Glacier |
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| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Mountains | Tangra Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 41 ′ S , 60 ° 8 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Brunow Bay | |
 Map of the Tangra Mountains with the Macy Glacier |
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The Macy Glacier is a glacier on the south coast of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . In the Tangra Mountains it lies south of the Friesland Ridge and Levski Ridge . It flows south to Brunow Bay .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 1959 after Robert Macy, captain of the brig Aurora from Nantucket , with which he operated in the waters around the South Shetland Islands between 1820 and 1821.
Web links
- Macy Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Macy Glacier on geographic.org (English)