Morley Glacier

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Morley Glacier
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Bowers Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 71 ° 12 ′  S , 162 ° 45 ′  E Coordinates: 71 ° 12 ′  S , 162 ° 45 ′  E
Morley Glacier (Antarctica)
Morley Glacier
drainage Carryer glacier

The Morley Glacier is a steep glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Explorers Range of the Bowers Mountains, it flows south between Hicks Ridge and Mount Tokoroa to the Carryer Glacier .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1964 after the Australian meteorologist Keith T. Morley, who in 1958 as part of the International Geophysical year (1957-1958) at the Little America V station .

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