Grimes Glacier

- 79.2 - 84.366666666667Koordinaten: 79 ° 12 '0 "S, 84 ° 22' 0 " W

The Grimes Glacier is a steep sloping glacier on the east side of the Anderson Massif in the West Antarctic Heritage Range. South of the glacier is 1910 m high peak Rullman.

The glacier was mapped by the United States Geological Survey as part of the compilation of Ellsworthgebirges in the years 1961-1966 through site surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy. He was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names by Paul D. Grimes, a sergeant in the U.S. Navy, who did as Master Chief Equipmentman service. He was in 1965 head of the construction crews, 1965 the airfield Williams Field in McMurdo Sound offset to a different location in the last month of Operation Deep Freeze due to the movement of the ice shelf.

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