Cayley Glacier () is a
glacier flowing northwest into the south side of
Brialmont Cove Brialmont Cove () is a cove in Hughes Bay, lying between Charles Point and Spring Point along the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctica. It was charted in 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, who named it for Lieutenant-Gener ...
, on the west coast of
Graham Land.
History
Cayley Glacier was photographed by the
Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in 1956–57 and mapped from these photos by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey. It was named by the
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for
Sir George Cayley, English engineer, the "father of aeronautica," who first defined the main principles of mechanical flight, 1796–1857, and also designed the first caterpillar tractor in 1826.
See also
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List of glaciers in the Antarctic
There are many glaciers in the Antarctic. This set of lists does not include ice sheets, ice caps or ice fields, such as the Antarctic ice sheet, but includes glacial features that are defined by their flow, rather than general bodies of ice. Th ...
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Glaciology
External links
Cayley Glacieron
USGS website
Cayley Glacieron
SCAR website
Cayley Glacier Satellite imageCayley Glacier area map*
References
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Glaciers of Danco Coast
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