Berry Glacier () is an Antarctic

glacier A glacier (; ) is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its Ablation#Glaciology, ablation over many years, often Century, centuries. It acquires dis ...

, about long and wide, draining north between Perry Range and

Demas Range The Demas Range () is a mountain range about long that forms the lower east margin of the Berry Glacier in Marie Byrd Land. The range trends north–south culminating in Mount Goorhigian, high. It was discovered by the United States Antarctic S ...

into the

Getz Ice Shelf The Getz Ice Shelf is the largest Antarctic ice shelf along the SE Pacific-Antarctic coastline, over long and from wide, bordering the Hobbs and Bakutis Coasts of Marie Byrd Land between the McDonald Heights and Martin Peninsula. Several larg ...

on the coast of

Marie Byrd Land Marie Byrd Land (MBL) is an unclaimed region of Antarctica. With an area of , it is the largest unclaimed territory on Earth. It was named after the wife of American naval officer Richard E. Byrd, who explored the region in the early 20th centur ...

. This vicinity was first photographed and rudely charted from aircraft of the

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in December 1940, and the glacier was mapped in detail by the

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from ground surveys and from U.S. Navy air photos, 1959–66. It was named by the

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for Commander

William H. Berry William Harvey Berry (September 9, 1852 – June 19, 1928) was an American politician who served as Mayor of Chester, Pennsylvania, for one year in 1905 and as the Pennsylvania Treasurer, Pennsylvania State Treasurer from 1906 to 1908. As Tr ...

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, Air Operations Officer for Task Force 43 during

Operation Deep Freeze Operation Deep Freeze (OpDFrz or ODF) is codename for a series of United States missions to Antarctica, beginning with "Operation Deep Freeze I" in 1955–56, followed by "Operation Deep Freeze II", "Operation Deep Freeze III", and so on. (There w ...

1969–72; Operations Officer, 1973. There are seven volcanic

nunatak A nunatak (from Inuit ''nunataq'') is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge. They are also called glacial islands. Examples are natural pyramidal peaks. ...

s along the east side of the glacier.

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* Glaciers of Marie Byrd Land {{MarieByrdLand-glacier-stub

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