Wright Upper Glacier

glacier in Antarctica
Landform glacier Q8038271
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Wright Upper Glacier

Summary

Wright Upper Glacier is a glacier[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of glacier entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Wright Upper Glacier is located in Antarctic Treaty area[3].
  • Wright Upper Glacier's image is recorded as Wright Upper Glacier, Wright Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys.jpg[4].
  • Wright Upper Glacier's continent is recorded as Antarctica[5].
  • Wright Upper Glacier's instance of is recorded as glacier[6].
  • C. S. Wright is named after Wright Upper Glacier[7].
  • Wright Upper Glacier's Commons category is recorded as Wright Upper Glacier[8].
  • Wright Upper Glacier's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': -77.5333, 'lon': 160.583}[9].
  • Wright Upper Glacier's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0dgq7jg[10].
  • Wright Upper Glacier's GNIS Antarctica ID is recorded as 16817[11].
  • Wright Upper Glacier's GeoNames ID is recorded as 6628296[12].
  • Wright Upper Glacier's SCAR Composite Gazetteer place ID is recorded as 16241[13].
  • Wright Upper Glacier's mountain range is recorded as Transantarctic Mountains[14].
  • Wright Upper Glacier's New Zealand Gazetteer place ID is recorded as 13507[15].

Why It Matters

Wright Upper Glacier ranks in the top 7% of glacier entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
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  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . GeoNames. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 19d ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Named after C. S. Wright
    Located in the administrative territorial entity Antarctic Treaty area
    Coordinate location {'lat': -77.5333, 'lon': 160.583}
    Instance of glacier
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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