The Hammond Glacier is located on the NE side of the Haines Mountains, flowing NW for about 40 [mile]s to Sulzberger Ice Shelf in the Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land. The Haines Mountains is a range of ice-capped Mountains trending NW-SE for about 40 km (25 Miles and forming the SW wall of Hammond Glacier Sulzberger Bay ( is a bay between Fisher Island and Vollmer Island, along the coast of Marie Byrd Land. The Ford Ranges ( is a grouping of Mountain ranges standing east of Sulzberger Ice Shelf and Block Bay in the northwest part of Marie Byrd Land Marie Byrd Land is the portion of Antarctica lying east of the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and south of the Pacific Ocean, extending eastward Discovered in 1934 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, and named by Byrd for John Hays Hammond, American mining engineer and philanthropist. Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, USN ( October 25, 1888 &ndash March 11, 1957) was a pioneering American polar
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This article incorporates text from Hammond Glacier, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government. This is a list of Glaciers. Due to somewhat sparse information some glaciers especially those in the tropics may no longer exist as listed The Geographic Names Information System ( GNIS) is a database that contains name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features located throughout The United States Geological Survey ( USGS) is a scientific agency of the United States government. The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone A work of the United States government, as defined by United States copyright law, is "a work prepared by an officer or employee of the U Coordinates:
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