Earnshaw Glacier
| Earnshaw Glacier | ||
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 16 km | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 48 ′ S , 65 ° 13 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Maitland Glacier | |
The Earnshaw Glacier is a 16 km long glacier in the northeast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows east of the Norwood Scarp in a northerly direction to the Maitland Glacier , which it reaches south of Werner Peak .
Aerial photographs were taken on September 28, 1940 during the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941). The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) carried out surveys in January 1961. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the glacier in 1962 after the British watchmaker Thomas Earnshaw (1749–1829), who went back to developments without which modern chronometers would be inconceivable.
Web links
- Earnshaw Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Earnshaw Glacier on geographic.org (English)