Drummond Glacier
| Drummond Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 16 km | |
| width | ⌀ 3 km | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 42 ′ S , 65 ° 34 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Darbel Bay | |
The Drummond Glacier is a glacier on the Loubet coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows in a west-northwest direction to Darbel Bay , which it reaches south of the Hopkins Glacier .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out an initial survey of the glacier between 1946 and 1947. A distinction made at the time between an eastern and a western section of the glacier, which together fill a depression across Grahamland, turned out to be a mistake. Another survey in 1957 showed that there are two independent glacier systems. The glacier described here was named after the British biochemist Jack Cecil Drummond (1891–1952), who advised numerous British polar expeditions between the two world wars on the composition of the food that was brought with him. The second glacier is the Balch Glacier .
Web links
- Drummond Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Drummond Glacier on geographic.org (English)