Erskine glacier
| Erskine glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 25 km | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 31 ′ S , 65 ° 23 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Darbel Bay | |
The Erskine Glacier is a 25 km long glacier on the Loubet coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows north of the Hopkins Glacier into Darbel Bay .
According to an initial survey by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), the ice flow, which was then known as the West Gould Glacier , should form a transverse depression through Grahamland together with the Gould Glacier . Further investigations in 1957 showed, however, that there is no topographical connection between the two glaciers . The glacier is named after Angus Bruce Erskine (1928-2006), head of the FIDS group, which contributed to the clarification of the arrangement of these glaciers.
Web links
- Erskine Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Erskine Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 506 (English).