Endurance glacier
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 Map of Elephant Island with the Endurance Glacier |
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| location | Elephant Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 61 ° 10 ′ S , 55 ° 11 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Weddell Sea | |
The Endurance Glacier is the largest glacier on Elephant Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It flows north of Mount Elder in a south-easterly direction towards the coast.
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1971 after the Antarctic patrol ship HMS Endurance , which anchored several times at the mouth of the glacier from 1970 onwards.
Web links
- Endurance Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Endurance Glacier on geographic.org (English)