Exum Glacier () is a small
glacier flowing north between
Hughes Point and
Bonnabeau Dome
Bonnabeau Dome is a prominent ice-covered dome mountain rising on the west side of Gopher Glacier, west of the similar-appearing Anderson Dome, in the Jones Mountains. It was mapped by the University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, ...
, in the
Jones Mountains of
Antarctica. It was mapped by the
University of Minnesota – Jones Mountains Party, 1960–61, and was named by the party for
Glenn Exum
Glenn Exum (June 24, 1911 – March 17, 2000) numbers among the premier mountaineers in American climbing history. Exum is best remembered for ascents in the Teton Range. In 1931, while only in his teens, Exum was the first to climb the exp ...
, a
mountaineer who provided training in rock and ice climbing for the University of Minnesota field parties of 1960–61 and 1961–62.
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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
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Glaciers of Ellsworth Land
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