Crevasse Valley Glacier
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Crevasse Valley Glacier () is a broad glacier about long, flowing west-southwest between the
Chester Mountains The Chester Mountains () are a group of mountains just north of the mouth of Crevasse Valley Glacier and north of Saunders Mountain in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land. They were mapped by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1933–35) and named ...
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Saunders Mountain Saunders Mountain () is a massive islandlike mountain rising to 975 m at the west end of Denfeld Mountains, Ford Ranges, on the Saunders Coast, Marie Byrd Land. Discovered by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition on an aerial flight of December 5, 1929, a ...
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Sulzberger Ice Shelf Sulzberger (German: habitational name for someone from a place called Sulzberg) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Arthur Hays Sulzberger (1891–1968), publisher of ''The New York Times'' from 1935 to 1961 * Arthur Ochs Sulz ...
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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 ...
, Antarctica. It was discovered by a sledging party of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, which visited this area in November–December 1934, and so named because of its extensively crevassed surface.


See also

*
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 Marie Byrd Land {{MarieByrdLand-glacier-stub