Millett Glacier () is a heavily crevassed
glacier
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in
Antarctica
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, long and wide, flowing west from the
Dyer Plateau
Dyer Plateau () is a broad ice-covered upland of north-central Palmer Land, bounded to the north by Fleming Glacier and Bingham Glacier, and to the south by the Gutenko Mountains. It is buttressed by Goettel Escarpment.
The plateau was first exp ...
of
Palmer Land
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to
George VI Sound
George VI Sound or Canal Jorge VI or Canal Presidente Sarmiento or Canal Seaver or King George VI Sound or King George the Sixth Sound is a major bay/ fault depression, 300 miles (483 km) long and mainly covered by a permanent ice shelf. It ...
, immediately north of
Wade Point
Wade Point () is a rocky mass fronting on George VI Sound, rising to 915 m and marking the west extremity of the rock ridge separating Millet and Bertram Glacier Bertram Glacier () is a glacier, long and wide at its mouth, which flows west ...
. In its lower reaches the north side of this glacier merges with
Meiklejohn Glacier. Millett Glacier was first surveyed in 1936 by the
British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under
John Rymill
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, and was named by the
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
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in 1954 for
Hugh M. Millett, chief engineer of the ''
Penola'' during the BGLE.
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See also
* Sirius Cliffs
References
Glaciers of Palmer Land
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