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)
Pryor Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Pryor Glacier (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Glacier
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A glacier, partly in the Ross Dependency and about 57 km long, flowing north-eastwards to the sea to the north of Mount Sheilds. Plotted from aerial photographs taken by the US Navy in 1960-62. Named after M.E. Pryor, biologist and station scientific leader at McMurdo Station in 1959; US observer at Mirny, winter party, 1962.
M.E. Pryor, McMurdo Station in 1959, observer, Mirny 1962
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