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Barnes Glacier

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Barnes Glacier is a glacier on the west side of the Hemimont Plateau, flowing west into Blind Bay on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1958 for Howard T. Barnes, a Canadian physicist and pioneer of ice engineering.

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