Albone Glacier
| Albone Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Detroit plateau | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 13 ′ S , 59 ° 42 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Weddell Sea | |
The Albone Glacier is a narrow and deeply furrowed glacier in Grahamland, West Antarctica . It flows south from the Detroit Plateau on the east side of the Wolseley Buttress .
The Falkland Island Dependencies Survey carried out a mapping based on its own surveys between 1960 and 1961. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the glacier after Dan Albone (1860–1906), founder of the Ivel company and designer of the first efficient tractor with a combustion engine .
Web links
- Albone Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Albone Glacier on geographic.org (English)