Astrolabe glacier
| Astrolabe glacier | ||
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| location | Adélieland , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 45 ′ S , 139 ° 55 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Lake D'Urville | |
The Astrolabe Glacier is a 16 km long and 6 km wide glacier in the East Antarctic Adélieland . It flows from the Antarctic continental ice in a north-northeast direction and flows into the southern ocean in the form of a striking, 5 km wide and 6 km long glacier tongue ( 66 ° 42 ′ S , 140 ° 5 ′ E ) on the east side of the Géologie archipelago . On the west side of the glacier tongue, 320 m south of the Rostand Island , the Bon-Docteur-Nunatak rises up .
It was probably the French polar explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville who discovered him in 1840 during the Third French Antarctic Expedition (1837–1940), although his maps of this stretch of coast do not contain any glaciers. Aerial photographs were taken in January 1947 during the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947). French scientists mapped it during an expedition that lasted from 1949 to 1951 and named it after d'Urville's expedition ship Astrolabe .
Web links
- Astrolabe Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Astrolabe Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Astrolabe Glacier Tongue on geographic.org (accessed September 4, 2016).