Balch glacier
| Balch glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 15 km | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 48 ′ S , 64 ° 51 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Mill Inlet , Weddell Sea | |
The Balch Glacier is a glacier on the Foyn Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows in a south-easterly direction to Mill Inlet , which it reaches together with the Alberts Glacier south of the Gould Glacier .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out an initial survey of the glacier between 1946 and 1947. A distinction made at the time between an eastern and a western section of the glacier, which together fill a depression across Grahamland, turned out to be a mistake. Another survey in 1957 showed that there are two independent glacier systems. The glacier described here was named after Edwin Swift Balch (1856-1927), American mountaineer, glaciologist and Antarctic historian. The second glacier is the Drummond Glacier .
Web links
- Balch Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Balch Glacier on geographic.org (English)