Diplock glacier
| Diplock glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Detroit plateau | |
| length | 16 km | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 2 ′ S , 58 ° 52 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Prince Gustav Canal | |
The Diplock Glacier is a narrow, straight and around 16 km long glacier in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows from the Detroit Plateau in an easterly direction to the Prince Gustav Canal , which it reaches 8 km south of Alectoria Island .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped it based on its own measurements between 1960 and 1961. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on February 12, 1964 after the British inventor Bramah Joseph Diplock (1857-1918), who made significant contributions to the between 1885 and 1913 Development of tracked vehicles .
Web links
- Diplock Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Diplock Glacier on geographic.org (English)