Apollo glacier
| Apollo glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 14.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 49 ′ S , 64 ° 46 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Aphrodite glacier | |
The Apollo Glacier is a glacier on the Bowman Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows in a north-easterly direction and flows 3 km east of the coast into the lower section of the Aphrodite Glacier .
WLG Joerg mapped the lower section of the glacier using aerial photographs taken by the Australian polar explorer Hubert Wilkins in December 1928 and the American polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth in November 1935 . Further aerial photographs were taken in December 1947 during the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948). The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out a rough survey of the entire glacier in November 1960. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him after Apollo , among other things god of youth and beauty from Greek mythology.
Web links
- Apollo Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Apollo Glacier on geographic.org (English)