Archer glacier
| Archer glacier | ||
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| location | Graham Land , Antarctica | |
| length | 13 km (roughly estimated) | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 12 ′ S , 63 ° 3 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Bolsón Cove | |
The Archer Glacier is a glacier on the Danco coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows in a north-westerly direction to Bolsón Cove in the Bay of Flanders .
The first mapping of the glacier goes back to participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the British photography pioneer Frederick Scott Archer (1813-1857) who invented the collodion wet plate method in photography in 1849 .
Web links
- Archer Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Archer Glacier on geographic.org (English)