Riley Glacier
| Riley Glacier | ||
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 22.5 km | |
| width | Max. 27 km | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 6 ′ S , 67 ° 55 ′ W | |
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| drainage | George VI Sound | |
The Riley Glacier is an approximately 22.5 km long, up to 27 km wide and strongly fissured glacier on the Rymill coast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows between the Traverse Mountains and Mount Dixey in a westerly direction to George VI Sound .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill discovered and mapped it in 1936. Another survey was carried out in 1949 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . It is named after Quintin Theodore Petroc Molesworth Riley (1905–1980), assistant meteorologist with Rymill's expedition.
Web links
- Riley Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Riley Glacier on geographic.org (English)