Cumpston Glacier
| Cumpston Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 59 ′ S , 65 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Mill Inlet , Weddell Sea | |
The Cumpston Glacier is a small glacier on the Foyn coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows into the head end of Mill Inlet between the Breitfuß and Quartermain glaciers .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the glacier on July 21, 1976 after the Australian polar historian John Stanley Cumpston (1909-1986) from the Australian Foreign Ministry, who published a map of Antarctica in 1939 together with the cartographer Edward Percival Bayliss from the Australian Interior Ministry .
Web links
- Cumpston Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cumpston Glacier on geographic.org (English)