Zeller glacier

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Zeller glacier
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location Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains Transantarctic Mountains
length 16 km
Coordinates 80 ° 55 ′  S , 156 ° 30 ′  E Coordinates: 80 ° 55 ′  S , 156 ° 30 ′  E
Zeller Glacier (Antarctica)
Zeller glacier
drainage Byrd glacier
Map sheet Mount Olympus from 1964, Zeller Glacier in the southeast of the map

Map sheet Mount Olympus from 1964, Zeller Glacier in the southeast of the map

The Zeller Glacier is a 16 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It flows in a west-northwest direction to the southern flank of the Byrd Glacier , which it reaches immediately north of Mount Fries .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1965 after the geologist Edward Jacob Zeller (1925-1996), who worked from 1959 to 1960 and from 1960 to 1961 at the McMurdo station .

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