Breguet glacier
| Breguet glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 11 ′ S , 60 ° 42 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Cierva Cove | |
The Breguet Glacier is a glacier on the Danco coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows into Cierva Cove , which it reaches south of the Gregory Glacier .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the French aircraft designers Louis Charles Breguet (1880–1955) and his brother Jacques (1881–1939), who made the first vertical flight with a helicopter-like aircraft on October 29, 1907 .
Web links
- Breguet Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Breguet Glacier on geographic.org (English)