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Feature Name (see definition): Ball Glacier Feature Class (see definition): Glacier Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica) Feature ID (see definition): 17059 Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 78° 03' 00" S Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 162° 50' 00" E Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -78.05 Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): 162.8333333 Elevation (see definition): No data Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1995 Description (see definition): A glacier 7 miles long with the head located between Mount Lister and Mount Hooker on the east side of Royal Society Range. The glacier flows northeast between Craw Ridge and Tasman Ridge into Blue Glacier. Named by New Zealand Geographic Board (NZGB) after Gary Ball (Ball Peak, q.v.) New Zealand mountaineer who climbed Mount Lister with an Italian field party, 1976-77, and camped on this glacier; field assistant with R. H. Findlay’s New Zealand Antarctic Research Program (NZARP) party to this area, 1980-81. Date Created (see definition): 06/22/1998 Date Edited (see definition): No data NOTE: The information regarding Ball Glacier in Antarctica on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the Antarctica, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Ball Glacier information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Ball Glacier should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
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