Search
Menu
Home
Sources
About
Contacts
Dale Glacier
Dale
Glacier
is a trenchlike
glacier
which drains the
southwest
slopes
of
Mount Huggins
in the
Royal Society Range
and flows
west
into
Skelton Glacier
. First visited by F.R.
Brooke
and Bernard M. Gunn of the
New Zealand
party of the
Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
, 1956–58, it was named by the
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
in
1963
for
Lieutenant Commander
Robert
L. Dale, U.S.
Navy
, who was
officer in charge
of the Squadron
VX-6
wintering-over
detachment
at
McMurdo Station
in
1960
.