Chapman Glacier (Palmerland)
| Chapman glacier | ||
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Dyer Plateau | |
| length | 18 km | |
| width | Max. 16 km | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 17 ′ S , 67 ° 55 ′ W | |
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| drainage | George VI Sound , Bellingshausen Lake | |
The Chapman Glacier is a 18 km long and up to 16 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 south of Carse Point . At its mouth it is 5 km wide.
The first measurements of the glacier were made in 1936 by participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1954 after the British mountaineer and Arctic explorer Frederick Spencer Chapman (1907-1971), who in 1934 got Rymill's expedition 64 Greenland dogs.
Web links
- Chapman Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Chapman Glacier on geographic.org (English)