Clarke Glacier (Marie Byrd Land)

Clarke Glacier Coordinates: 75°11′S 139°06′W / 75.183°S 139.100°W / -75.183; -139.100 is an 8 mile long glacier that drains from Coulter Heights to Hull Bay. It was named in 2003 by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN).

It was named after Theodore S. Clarke, a University of Wisconsin–Madison geophysicist whose research in the 1990s focused on theoretical and field analysis of the ice stream area of West Antarctica.

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