McClary Glacier () is a

glacier A glacier (; or ) is a persistent body of dense ice, a form of rock, that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires ...

long and wide on the west coast of

Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee ...

, Antarctica. It flows southwest along the north side of Butson Ridge into

Marguerite Bay Marguerite Bay or Margaret Bay is an extensive bay on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula, which is bounded on the north by Adelaide Island and on the south by Wordie Ice Shelf, George VI Sound and Alexander Island. The mainland coast on th ...

between

Cape Calmette Cape Calmette () is a cape marking the western extremity of a rocky peninsula which rises more than and projects from the west coast of Graham Land for to form the southern shore of Calmette Bay. It was discovered in 1909 by the French Antarctic ...

and the

Debenham Islands The Debenham Islands () are a group of islands and rocks lying between Millerand Island and the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. Location The Debenham Islands are in Marguerite Bay in Graham Land on the Fallières Coast of the Antarctic P ...

. The glacier was first roughly surveyed by the British Graham Land Expedition, 1936–37, and resurveyed by the

Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey The Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) was an aerial survey of the Falkland Islands Dependencies The Falkland Islands Dependencies was the constitutional arrangement from 1843 until 1985 for administering the v ...

, 1946–50. It was named by the

UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) an ...

for George B. McClary, father of Nelson McClary, mate on the ''

Port of Beaumont The Port of Beaumont is a deep-water port located in Beaumont, Texas near the mouth of the Neches River. It is the fourth busiest port in the United States according to the American Association of Port Authorities ''U.S. Port Ranking by Cargo T ...

'' during the

Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) was an expedition from 1947–1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. Background Finn Ronne led the RARE which was the final privately sponsored exp ...

, 1947–48.

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Glaciers of Fallières Coast {{FallièresCoast-glacier-stub

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