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Warr Glacier
Warr
Glacier
is a
broad
glacier
flowing north into the
southwest
arm of
Murphy Inlet
,
Thurston Island
. Named by
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
after
William Warr
,
Aviation Machinist's Mate
in the
Eastern Group
of U.S. Navy
Operation Highjump
, 1946–47. Warr and five others survived the
December 30
,
1946
crash of a
PBM Mariner
seaplane on adjacent
Noville Peninsula
.
Maps
1:500000
Antarctica
Sketch
Map
.
US Geological Survey
, 1967.
Scale
1:250000
topographic map
of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research. Since 1993, regularly
upgraded
and updated.