Bartlett Glacier () is a tributary

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, about long and wide at its terminus, flowing northeast from

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and joining Scott Glacier close north of Mount Gardiner. It was discovered in December 1934 by the

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geological party under

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, and named by

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for Captain Robert A. Bartlett of

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, Newfoundland, a noted Arctic navigator and explorer who recommended that the expedition acquire the ''Bear'', an ice-ship which was purchased and rechristened by Byrd as the ''Bear of Oakland''.

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* Glaciers of Amundsen Coast {{RossDependency-glacier-stub

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