Aphrodite glacier
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 53 ′ S , 64 ° 33 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Bowman Inlet | |
The Aphrodite Glacier is a glacier on the Bowman Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows 3 km west of the Victory Nunatak in a northerly direction to Bowman Inlet .
The lower section of the glacier was first mapped by WLG Joerg based on aerial photographs taken by the Australian polar explorer Hubert Wilkins in December 1928 and the American polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth in November 1935. Then in December 1947, participants in the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948) photographed it. . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out surveys of the glacier between December 1958 and November 1960. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1962 after Aphrodite , goddess of love, beauty and sensual desire from Greek mythology.
Web links
- Aphrodite Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Aphrodite Glacier on geographic.org (English)