Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Cayley Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cayley Glacier (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Glacier (12)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Glacier flowing NW into the S side of Brialmont Cove, on the W coast of Graham Land. Photographed by the FIDASE in 1956-57 and mapped from these photos by the FIDS. Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for Sir George Cayley (1773-1857), English engineer, the "father of aeronautica," who first defined the main principles of mechanical flight, 1796-1857, and designed the first caterpillar tractor in 1826.
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