page_title: Byrd Glacier
hierarchical_section_title: Byrd Glacier
caption_attribution_description: English: Byrd Glacier, Antarctica from Landsat Byrd Glacier is a fifteen mile wide, one hundred mile long rock-floored ice stream located in southern Antarctica. This long, unique ice feature plunges through a deep valley in the Transatlantic Mountains and into the Ross Ice Shelf. This ice stream speeds as a river of ice at a rate of one half mile per year.
context_page_description: The Byrd Glacier is a major glacier in Antarctica, about 136 km long and 24 km wide, draining an extensive area of the polar plateau and flowing eastward between the Britannia Range and Churchill Mountains to discharge into the Ross Ice Shelf at Barne Inlet. Its valley below the glacier used to be recognised as one of the lowest point not to be covered by water on Earth, reaching 2,780 metres below sea level. It was named by the NZ-APC after Rear Admiral Byrd, US Navy Antarctic explorer.
  On the south side of Byrd Glacier is Blake Massif.
context_section_description: The Byrd Glacier is a major glacier in Antarctica, about 136 km (85 mi) long and 24 km (15 mi) wide, draining an extensive area of the polar plateau and flowing eastward between the Britannia Range and Churchill Mountains to discharge into the Ross Ice Shelf at Barne Inlet. Its valley below the glacier used to be recognised as one of the lowest point not to be covered by water on Earth, reaching 2,780 metres (9,120 feet) below sea level. It was named by the NZ-APC after Rear Admiral Byrd, US Navy Antarctic explorer.
  On the south side of Byrd Glacier is Blake Massif.
caption: Byrd Glacier from Landsat
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