Cardell glacier

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Cardell glacier
location Graham Land , Antarctica
Coordinates 66 ° 26 ′  S , 65 ° 28 ′  W Coordinates: 66 ° 26 ′  S , 65 ° 28 ′  W
Cardell Glacier (Antarctic Peninsula)
Cardell glacier
drainage Ensenada Aguayo

The Cardell Glacier is a glacier on the Loubet coast of Antarctic Graham Land . It flows between Shanty Point and the Panther Cliff into the Ensenada Aguayo , a side bay of Darbel Bay .

Aerial photos by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. from 1955 to 1957 were used by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey for mapping. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 after the British eye surgeon John Douglas Magor Cardell (1896–1966) who developed the first modern snow goggles .

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