Daguerre glacier
| Daguerre glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 9 ′ S , 63 ° 29 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Niépce glacier | |
The Daguerre Glacier is a glacier on the Danco Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It merges into the Niépce Glacier before it flows into Lauzanne Cove in the Bay of Flanders .
The glacier was first shown on an Argentine map from 1954. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 1960 after the French photography pioneer Louis Daguerre (1787-1851), inventor of the daguerreotype named after him .
Web links
- Daguerre Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Daguerre Glacier on geographic.org (English)