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Singer Glacier

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Singer Glacier (74°16′S 113°57′W) is a glacier flowing east-northeast from Martin Peninsula between Slichter Foreland and Smythe Shoulder into Dotson Ice Shelf, on Walgreen Coast, Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1959–67, and Landsat imagery, 1972-73. Named in 1977 by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Howard Singer, geophysicist, University of California, Los Angeles, a member of the United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) winter party at South Pole Station, 1973.

Map of Singer Glacier, Antarctica

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

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