Bussey Glacier

Location of Kiev Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula.

Bussey Glacier (65°16′S 64°1′W / 65.267°S 64.017°W / -65.267; -64.017Coordinates: 65°16′S 64°1′W / 65.267°S 64.017°W / -65.267; -64.017) is a glacier flowing west from Mount Peary to the head of Waddington Bay on Kiev Peninsula on the west coast of Graham Land. It was first charted by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, 1908–10, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 for Group Captain John Bussey of the Directorate of Overseas Surveys.

References

SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Bussey Glacier" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/21/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.