Willey glacier
| Willey glacier | ||
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 25 ′ S , 67 ° 49 ′ W | |
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| drainage | George VI Sound | |
The Willey Glacier is a very rugged glacier on the Rymill Coast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows north of the Creswick Peaks from Creswick Gap in a westerly direction to George VI Sound .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 1976 after Lawrence Edward Willey (* 1943), who worked as a geologist at the stations of the British Antarctic Survey at Fossil Bluff (1966-1969) and on Stonington Island (1973).
Web links
- Willey Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Willey Glacier on geographic.org (English)