Bagshawe glacier
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location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
Coordinates | 64 ° 57 ′ S , 62 ° 34 ′ W | |
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drainage | Lester Cove |
The Bagshawe Glacier is a glacier on the west coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows from the northeast slopes of Mount Theodore to Lester Cove , a branch of Andvord Bay .
The mouth of the glacier was first sighted during the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery . The British geodesist Kenneth Victor Blaiklock (* 1927) carried out a rough survey from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in April 1955. It is named after the British geologist Thomas Wyatt Bagshawe (1901-1976), who worked with Maxime Charles Lester (1891-1957) in the course of the British Imperial Antarctic Expedition (1920-1922) under the direction of John Lachlan Copes (1893-1947) between January Lived at Waterboat Point in 1921 and January 1922 and performed geodetic survey work in the area.
Web links
- Bagshawe Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bagshawe Glacier on geographic.org (English)