Comrie glacier

Comrie glacier
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location	Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
length	21 km
Coordinates	65 ° 49 ′ S , 64 ° 13 ′ W Coordinates: 65 ° 49 ′ S , 64 ° 13 ′ W
drainage	Bigo Bay

The Comrie Glacier is a 21 km long glacier on the Graham Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows west to the head of Bigo Bay .

Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910), led by polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot , were the first to sight it in 1909 and undertake a rough survey. A new survey was carried out between 1935 and 1936 during the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . It is named after the New Zealand astronomer Leslie John Comrie (1893-1950), head of the HM Nautical Almanac Office in 1934, which supplied Rymill's research trip with copies of the nautical almanac that dated back to 1937.

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