Woodberry Glacier
| Woodberry Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Albert Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 6 ′ S , 161 ° 38 ′ E | |
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| drainage | David Glacier | |
The Woodberry Glacier is a small glacier in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . It flows south between Evans Heights and Mount Fearon in the north flank of the David Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own measurements and with the help of aerial photographs of the United States Navy between 1956 and 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after the American ionospheric physicist Barry D. Woodberry, who on the Antarctic winter of 1966 Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station .
Web links
- Woodberry Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Woodberry Glacier on geographic.org