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Butler Glacier () is a broad glacier draining the north side of Edward VII Peninsula in the vicinity of Clark Peak, and flowing generally northeastward through the
Alexandra Mountains :''See also Queen Alexandra Range'' Alexandra Mountains () is a group of low, separated mountains in the north portion of Edward VII Peninsula, just southwest of Sulzberger Bay in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Discovered in January–February 19 ...
to its terminus in
Sulzberger Bay Sulzberger Bay () is a bay between Fisher Island and Vollmer Island, along the coast of King Edward VII Land. Discovered by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition on December 5, 1929, and named by Byrd for Arthur H. Sulzberger, publisher of ''The New Y ...
. It was mapped from surveys by the United States Geological Survey and from U.S. Navy air photos (1959–65), and named by the
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...
for Lieutenant F.M. Butler, U.S. Navy, expedition navigator in charge of all navigation watch sections on during the exploration of this area in January 1962.


See also

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List of glaciers in the Antarctic There are many glaciers in the Antarctic. This set of lists does not include ice sheets, ice caps or ice fields, such as the Antarctic ice sheet, but includes glacial features that are defined by their flow, rather than general bodies of ice. Th ...
* Glaciology


References

* Glaciers of King Edward VII Land {{RossDependency-glacier-stub