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Moffett Glacier
Moffett
Glacier
is a tributary
glacier
, long,
flowing
east
from
Rawson Plateau
to
enter
Amundsen Glacier
just
south
of
Mount Benjamin
, in the
Queen Maud Mountains
of
Antarctica
. it was
discovered
by
Rear Admiral
Richard
E.
Byrd
on
the South
Pole
flight of November 28–29, 1929, and named by him for
Rear
Admiral
William A. Moffett, U.S.
Navy
, first
Chief
of the
Bureau of Aeronautics
,
Department of the Navy
.