White glacier
| White glacier | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 45 ′ S , 140 ° 50 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Land glacier | |
The White Glacier is a wide glacier near the Ruppert Coast in Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . It flows west to the Land Glacier , which it reaches on the north side of Mount McCoy .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of aerial photographs of the United States Navy and its own measurements between 1959 and 1965. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 at the suggestion of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd after General Thomas D. White (1901– 1965) by the United States Air Force , Chief of Staff of the Air Force and member of the combined chiefs of staff in Operation Deep Freeze between 1957 and 1961, who was involved in these operations administratively and specifically in matters of air support.
Web links
- White Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- White Glacier on geographic.org (English)