Bertram glacier
| Bertram glacier | ||
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Dyer Plateau | |
| length | 24 km | |
| width | Max. 30 km | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 48 ′ S , 67 ° 17 ′ W | |
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| drainage | George VI Sound | |
The Bertram Glacier is a 24 km long and at its mouth up to 30 km wide glacier on the Rymill coast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows from the Dyer Plateau in a westerly direction to George VI Sound , which it reaches between Wade Point and Gurney Point .
It was discovered and measured in 1936 during the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 1954 after the British biologist George Colin Lawder Bertram (1911-2001), participant of the expedition, one of the discoverers of the glacier and from 1949 to 1956 head of the Scott Polar Research Institute .
Web links
- Bertram Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bertram Glacier on geographic.org (English)