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EOC Richard Riley “Dick” Farbo
CPO/EOC
Date of birth
03/12/1933
Date of passing
03/17/2025
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US NAVY
KOREA
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A tributary glacier which drains northeastward and enters the Land Glacier 8 mi west of Mount McCoy, on the coast of Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1959-65. Named by US-ACAN for Richard R. Farbo, equipment operator, USN, who wintered-over in Antarctica on three expeditions of Operation Deep Freeze. He was at McMurdo Station in 1959 and 1965, and the South Pole Station in 1969.
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