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==Glaciers== Glaciers leaving the mountains, clockwise from the north, are: ===Heap Glacier=== {{main|Heap Glacier}} {{coord|79|03|S|159|20|E}}. Glacier {{convert|10|mi}} long flowing northeastward to Mulock Glacier, to the east of [[#Henry Mesa|Henry Mesa]]. Mapped by the USGS from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1959-63. Named by US-AC AN for John A. Heap, a member of the University of Michigan-Ross Ice Shelf Studies party, 1962-63.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=322}} ===Bertoglio Glacier=== {{main|Bertoglio Glacier}} {{coord|79|18|S|160|20|E}}. Glacier {{convert|7|mi}} long, flowing from the Conway Range eastward between [[Cape Lankester]] and Hoffman Point to the Ross Ice Shelf. Mapped by the USGS from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1959-63. Named by US-ACAN for Cdr. Lloyd W. Bertoglio, USN, commander of the McMurdo Station winter party, 1960.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=63}} ===Carlyon Glacier=== {{main|Carlyon Glacier}} {{coord|79|34|S|159|50|E}}. A large glacier which flows east-south-east from the nΓ©vΓ© east of [[#Mill Mountain|Mill Mountain]] to the Ross Ice Shelf at Cape Murray. Mapped in 1958 by the Darwin Glacier party of the CTAE (1956-58). Named by the NZ-APC for R.A. Carlyon, who with H.H. Ayres, made up the party.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=120}} ===Diamond Glacier=== {{main|Diamond Glacier (Antarctica)}} {{coord|79|51|S|159|00|E}}. A small distributary glacier of the Darwin Glacier, flowing east-north-east into the narrow valley on the north side of [[Diamond Hill]]. Mapped by the VUWAE (1962-63) and named after Diamond Hill.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=187}} ===Touchdown Glacier=== {{main|Touchdown Glacier}} {{coord|79|48|S|158|10|E}}. A tributary of Darwin Glacier, flowing south between [[#Roadend Nunatak|Roadend Nunatak]] and the Brown Hills. Mapped by the VUWAE (1962-63) and so named because the glacier was used as a landing site for aircraft supporting the expedition.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=754}} ===McCleary Glacier=== {{main|McCleary Glacier}} {{coord|79|33|S|156|50|E}}. A broad glacier about {{convert|10|mi}} long, draining southward into Darwin Glacier just west of Tentacle Ridge. Mapped by the USGS from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1959-63. Named by US-ACAN for George McCleary, public information officer on the staff of the U.S. Antarctic Projects Officer (1959-61), whose labors helped to start the Bulletin of the USAPO.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=474}}
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