McManus Glacier

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McManus Glacier
location Alexander I Island , West Antarctica
Coordinates 69 ° 28 ′  S , 71 ° 29 ′  W Coordinates: 69 ° 28 ′  S , 71 ° 29 ′  W
McManus Glacier (Antarctic Peninsula)
McManus Glacier
drainage Palestrina glacier

The McManus Glacier is a glacier in the northwest of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It flows north to the Palestrina glacier .

The British Antarctic Survey mapped it between 1975 and 1976. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1980 after Alan James McManus (* 1949), cook of the survey in Grytviken (1971 and 1974), on the Faraday station (1972) as well on both sides on the Adelaide island located stations Base T (1975) and the Rothera station (1980).

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