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{{Short description|Glacier in Antarctica}}
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The '''Airy Glacier''' ({{coord|69|13|S|66|20|W|type:glacier_region:AQ|display=inline,title}}) is a [[glacier]] {{convert|20|nmi|km}} long and {{convert|6|nmi|km}} wide, flowing west to the northeast portion of [[Forster Ice Piedmont]], near the west coast of the [[Antarctic Peninsula]].

The glacier was first roughly surveyed by [[British Graham Land Expedition]] of 1936&ndash;37, then photographed from the air by the [[Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition]] in 1947, and surveyed by [[Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey]] in 1958.  It was named by [[United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee]] for [[George Biddell Airy]], British [[Astronomer Royal]], who in 1839 introduced a method of correcting [[magnetic compass]]es for [[Magnetic deviation|deviation]].

==See also==
* [[List of glaciers in the Antarctic]]
* [[Norman Peak]]

==References==
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{{Glaciers in the Antarctic}}
{{Glaciers of Palmer Land}}

[[Category:Glaciers of Palmer Land]]


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