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3-570: Nye Mountains ( 68°10′S 49°0′E  /  68.167°S 49.000°E  / -68.167; 49.000 ) is a group of mountains, 30 nautical miles (60 km) long and 10 to 15 nautical miles (28 km) wide, which trend eastward from the head of Rayner Glacier . They were sighted by Squadron Leader D. Leckie , RAAF, during an ANARE ( Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions ) flight in October 1956. Named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for P.B. Nye , former Director of

6-772: Is a prominent glacier , 19 kilometres (10 nmi) wide, flowing north to the coast of Enderby Land just west of Condon Hills . It was sighted in October 1956 by Squadron Leader D. Leckie during a flight in an ANARE ( Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions ) Beaver aircraft, and named by ANCA for J.M. Rayner , Director of the Bureau of Mineral Resources in the Australian Department of National Development . [REDACTED]  This article incorporates public domain material from "Rayner Glacier" . Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . This Enderby Land location article

9-580: The Bureau of Mineral Resources , Australian Department of National Development . [REDACTED]  This article incorporates public domain material from "Nye Mountains" . Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey .   [REDACTED] This Enderby Land location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Rayner Glacier Rayner Glacier ( 67°40′S 48°25′E  /  67.667°S 48.417°E  / -67.667; 48.417 )

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