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Union Glacier

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Union Glacier is a large, heavily crevassed glacier in the Ellsworth Mountains of Antarctica, at 79 degrees 45 minutes south, 82 degrees 30 minutes west, which receives the flow of several tributaries and drains through the middle of the Heritage Range. It flows from the plateau at Edson Hills on the west side of the range, running east between Pioneer Heights and Enterprise Hills, and was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and Navy aerial photographs taken between 1961 and 1966. It is now the site of the Union Glacier Blue-Ice Runway, Union Glacier Camp and Union Glacier Station.

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