Pryor glacier
| Pryor glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 50 km | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 5 ′ S , 160 ° 10 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Rennick Bay | |
 Map sheet Pomerantz Tableland from 1968, the Pryor glacier flows north of the map in a west-east direction |
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The Pryor Glacier is a 50 km long glacier on the Oates coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows in a northeasterly direction between the Wilson Hills and the Usarp Mountains and flows north of Mount Shields at Yermak Point into Rennick Bay .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1964 after the American biologist Madison E. Pryor (1928-2014) , Scientific Director of McMurdo Station in 1959 and Exchange Scientist at Soviet Mirny Station in 1962.
Web links
- Pryor Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pryor Glacier on geographic.org (English)