Edgeworth Glacier
| Edgeworth Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Detroit plateau | |
| length | 20 km | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 20 ′ S , 59 ° 53 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Larsen Ice Shelf | |
The Edgeworth Glacier is a 20 km long glacier on the Nordenskjöld coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows from the edge of the Detroit Plateau below the Wolseley Buttress to the northern section of the Larsen Ice Shelf , which it reaches west of the Sobral Peninsula .
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 Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744-1817), who in 1770 developed the first tracked vehicle .
Web links
- Edgeworth Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Edgeworth Glacier on geographic.org (English)