Bussey Glacier
Bussey Glacier is a glacier flowing west from Mount Peary to the head of Waddington Bay on Kyiv Peninsula on the west coast of Graham Land. It was first charted by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, 1908–10, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 for Group Captain John Bussey of the Directorate of Overseas Surveys.Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Touring Club and Balch, Mount.
Mount Touring Club
Peak
Mount Touring Club is a small snow-capped peak near the extremity of a spur that descends southwestward from Mount Peary, on the west side of Graham Land.
Balch, Mount
Peak
Mount Balch is an east-west trending mountain with numerous sharp peaks, the highest 1,105 m, between Mount Peary and Mount Mill on Kyiv Peninsula, west coast of Graham Land.
Bussey Glacier
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 454 metres
- Description: glacier in Antarctica
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Bussey Glacier” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Bussey Glacier”
- Chinese: “布西冰川”
- German: “Bussey-Gletscher”
- Italian: “ghiacciaio Bussey”
- Italian: “Ghiacciaio Bussey”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Busseybreen”
- Swedish: “Bussey Glacier”
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