Yancey Glacier
| Yancey Glacier | ||
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| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 14 ′ S , 158 ° 30 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Byrd glacier | |
The Yancey Glacier is a steeply sloping glacier in the Australian Antarctic Territory . In the Britannia Range, it flows from the vicinity of Mount McClintock in an initially east, then south-east direction immediately west of the Sennet Glacier to the Byrd Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1965 after the USS Yancey , a transport ship of the United States Navy used in the US Operation Highjump (1946-1947) .
Web links
- Yancey Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Yancey Glacier on geographic.org (English)