Keys Glacier

Keys Glacier (74°48′S 114°0′W) is a glacier flowing northeast from Jenkins Heights between Ellis Ridge and Mount Bray on the Bakutis Coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Surveyfrom surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1959–67, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1977 after Keith W. Keys, U.S. Navy, an air controller at Williams Field, McMurdo Sound, 1975–76.[1]

References

"Keys Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2013-04-30.

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Glaciers in the Antarctic

Glaciers of Marie Byrd Land

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