Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Priestley Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Priestley Glacier (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Glacier (12)
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A large valley glacier, about 2 1/2 miles wide, flowing from the interior highland south-east of Mt Baxter in a south-easterly direction to the northern end of the Nansen Sheet, on the east coast of Victoria Land. First explored by the Northern Party, led by Campbell, of the BAE, 1910-13, and named for Raymond (later Sir Raymond) E Priestley, geologist with the Northern Party.
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