COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

flowing WSW into George VI Sound between Traverse Mountains to the N and Mount Dixey and Mount Pitman to the S, was photographed from the air and surveyed from the ground by BGLE in October 1936 (Stephenson, 1940, map facing p.232). Following partial re-survey by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in 1949, the name was applied to include the present feature and the ice piedmont to the N (Warren Ice Piedmont, q.v.) after Quintin Theodore Petroc Molesworth Riley (1905-80), assistant meteorologist, BGLE; member of BAARE and of British expedition to east Greenland, 1932-33 (APC, 1955, p.18; DCS 601 sheet 69 66, 1955; DOS 610 sheets W 70 68, 1960; W 69 68, 1963; BAS 250P sheet SR 19-10/10, 1-DOS 1974). Lednik Rayli (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Following further survey by BAS from "Stonington Island", 1970-72, the name was limited to the feature as now defined (USGS sketch map Palmer Land (North Part), 1979; APC, 1980, p.5).

Heavily crevassed glacier, 14 mi long and 17 mi wide, flowing westward from the W side of Palmer Land into George VI Sound between the Traverse Mountains and Mount Dixey. First sighted and surveyed in 1936 by the BGLE under Rymill. Resurveyed in 1949 by the FIDS and named for Quintin T.P.M. Riley, assistant meteorologist of the BGLE, 1934-37.