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Snow and mountains.
Date Taken:
November 28, 2008
Photograph By:
Paul Thur
License Type:
Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

The Leverett Glacier is the passageway through the Antarctic Mountains taken by the South Pole Traverse. The glacier is about 70 miles long and 4 miles wide, situated between the Tapley Mountains (shown in the distance) and Harold Byrd Mountains. The Leverett Glacier was named in 1929 for Frank Leverett, geologist at the University of Michigan. The Tapley Mountains were named by Richard Byrd for the Honorable Harold L. Tapley of Dunedin, New Zealand, agent for the Byrd Antarctic Expedition of 1928-30 and 1933-35.

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