Morley Glacier
Morley Glacier | ||
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location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Bowers Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 71 ° 12 ′ S , 162 ° 45 ′ E | |
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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 .
Web links
- Morley Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Morley Glacier on geographic.org (English)