Arago glacier
| Arago glacier | ||
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| location | Graham Land , Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 50 ′ S , 62 ° 22 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Henryk Cove | |
The Arago Glacier is a glacier on the west coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows immediately northwest of the Moser Glacier into Henryk Cove , a side bay of Andvord Bay .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped it using aerial photographs from Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. from 1956 to 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the French astronomer and physicist François Arago (1786-1853), who in 1839 was the first to map using photographs.
Web links
- Arago Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Arago Glacier on geographic.org (English)