Singer Glacier

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Singer Glacier
Topographic map (1: 250,000) of the Martin Peninsula with the Singer Glacier (right of center)

Topographic map (1: 250,000) of the Martin Peninsula with the Singer Glacier (right of center)

location Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
Coordinates 74 ° 16 ′  S , 113 ° 57 ′  W Coordinates: 74 ° 16 ′  S , 113 ° 57 ′  W
Singer Glacier (Antarctica)
Singer Glacier
drainage Dotson Ice Shelf
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The Singer Glacier is a glacier on the Walgreen Coast of Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . On the east side of the Martin Peninsula, it flows between the Slichter Foreland and the Smythe Shoulder in an east-northeast direction to the Dotson Ice Shelf .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from the years 1959 to 1967 and Landsat recordings from the years 1972 to 1973. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1977 after the geophysicist Howard Singer von of the University of California, Los Angeles , who had heard about the occupation of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the Antarctic winter of 1973 as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program .

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