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Glen Peak () is a peak on the north end of
Liard Island Liard Island is a mountainous island, long, wide and rising to , situated in the north-central portion of Hanusse Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was discovered and named by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, un ...
in Hanusse Bay, Antarctica. It was mapped from air photos obtained by the
Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) was an expedition from 1947–1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. Background Finn Ronne led the RARE which was the final privately sponsored exp ...
(1947–48) and the
Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition The Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) was an aerial survey of the Falkland Islands Dependencies and the Antarctic peninsula which took place in the 1955–56 and 1956–57 southern summers. Funded by the Colonial ...
(1956–57). It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for John W. Glen, a British physicist who has made laboratory investigations on the flow of single and polycrystalline ice.


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