Eliason Glacier
| Eliason Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Detroit plateau | |
| length | 8 kilometers | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 12 ′ 42 ″ S , 59 ° 28 ′ 58 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Larsen Inlet | |
The Eliason Glacier is an 8 km long glacier on the Nordenskjöld coast in the east of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . Immediately west of Mount Hornsby, it flows south from the Detroit Plateau to the foreland glacier in the north of Larsen Inlet .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out surveys between 1960 and 1961. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after 1942 in Sweden developed later in the Canadian Kitchener manufactured and used since the 1960s in the Antarctic snowmobile brand Eliason .
Web links
- Eliason Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Eliason Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Eliason Snowmobile. Information page from Carl Eliason & Co. Inc. (accessed August 24, 2017).