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Seller Glacier is a well-defined glacier , 20 nautical miles (37 km) long and 4 nautical miles (7 km) wide flowing westward into Forster Ice Piedmont , western Antarctic Peninsula , just north of Flinders Peak . Roughly surveyed by British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE), 1936–37, and resurveyed by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in December 1958.

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3-593: The Bristly Peaks ( 69°23′S 66°15′W  /  69.383°S 66.250°W  / -69.383; -66.250 ) are a series of sharp, rock peaks on a ridge separating Seller Glacier and Fleming Glacier in the central Antarctic Peninsula . They were photographed from the air by the British Graham Land Expedition in 1937, and by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition in 1947. They were surveyed by

6-854: The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1958 and 1960. The name, applied by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee , is descriptive of the sharp peaks which suggest the bristles of a brush. The Bristly Peaks include the Messent Peak and the Brodie Peak . This Palmer Land location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Seller Glacier Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after John Seller (about 1630-1698), English hydrographer and compass maker who published

9-453: The first sailing directions for England, 1671; his The variation of the compass, with rules for its determination . [REDACTED]  This article incorporates public domain material from "Seller Glacier" . Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey .   [REDACTED] 69°19′S 66°24′W  /  69.317°S 66.400°W  / -69.317; -66.400 This article about

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