Blanchard Glacier
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 45 ′ S , 62 ° 3 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Wilhelmina Bay | |
The Blanchard Glacier is a glacier on the Danco coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows into Wilhelmina Bay between Garnerin Point and Sadler Point .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897-1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery carried out an initial mapping. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the French aviation pioneer Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753-1809), who in 1785, together with the American John Jeffries, had successfully crossed the English Channel for the first time in a balloon .
Web links
- Blanchard Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Blanchard Glacier on geographic.org (English)