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Simpson Glacier

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Simpson Glacier (71°17′S 168°38′E) is a glacier, 6 miles (10 km) long, in the Admiralty Mountains. It flows northward to the coast between Nelson Cliff and Mount Cherry-Garrard where it forms the Simpson Glacier Tongue. The latter feature was named by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, after Sir George Simpson, meteorologist of the expedition. The glacier described was mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS), 1960–63,a and was so named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) because (with Fendley Glacier to the east) it nourishes the Simpson Glacier Tongue.

Map of Simpson Glacier, Antarctica

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Simpson Glacier" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

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Simpson Glacier Wikipedia