Airy glacier
| Airy glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 32 km (roughly estimated) | |
| width | Max. 10 km (roughly estimated) | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 13 ′ S , 66 ° 20 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Forster Piedmont Glacier | |
The Airy Glacier is a 32 km long and up to 10 km wide glacial that on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula the west in the northeastern portion Forster-Piedmont Glacier flows.
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) made a first rough mapping . He was photographed from the air in 1947 during the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948). The glacier was measured by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1958 . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the glacier after the British astronomer George Biddell Airy (1801-1892), who in 1839 had developed a method for correcting the declination of magnetic compasses .
Web links
- Airy Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Airy Glacier on geographic.org (English)