Belgica glacier
| Belgica glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 13 km | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 24 ′ S , 63 ° 45 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Trooz glacier | |
The Belgica Glacier is a 13 km long glacier on the Graham Coast of West Antarctic Graham Land . On the Kiev Peninsula, it flows north-west to the Trooz Glacier , which it reaches east of Lancaster Hill .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937), led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill , carried out an initial survey. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 after the Belgica , the ship of the expedition of the same name (1897-1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery , which operated among other things in the area of the glacier.
Web links
- Belgica Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Belgica Glacier on geographic.org (English)