O'Hara Glacier
| O'Hara Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 49 ′ S , 166 ° 40 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Yule Bay | |
The O'Hara Glacier is a glacier on the Pennell Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows in a north-westerly direction and joins the southern section of Yule Bay immediately west of Ackroyd Point .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it by means of survey work and using aerial photographs of the United States Navy between 1960 and 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 after Norbert W. O'Hara (* 1930), a member of the United States team Antarctic Research Program , which carried out surveys on the Ross Ice Shelf between 1965 and 1966 .
Web links
- O'Hara Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- O'Hara Glacier on geographic.org (English)