Carbutt Glacier
| Carbutt Glacier | ||
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| location | Graham Land , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 9 ′ S , 62 ° 50 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Goodwin Glacier | |
The Carbutt Glacier is a glacier on the Danco Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows east of the Bay of Flanders and Maddox Peak into the Goodwin Glacier .
The glacier is unnamed on an Argentine map from 1954. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the American-British photographer John Carbutt (1832–1905), the inventor of the first functional celluloid film in the history of photography in 1888.
Web links
- Carbutt Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Carbutt Glacier on geographic.org (English)