Evans Glacier (West Antarctica)
| Evans glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 24 km | |
| width | Max. 6.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 4 ′ S , 61 ° 52 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Hektoria Glacier | |
The Evans Glacier is a glacier with a moderate gradient on the Oscar II coast of the Antarctic Graham Land . It flows in an easterly direction to the Hektoria Glacier , which it reaches between Shiver Point and Whiteside Hill .
The Australian polar explorer Hubert Wilkins discovered it on his Antarctic flight on December 20, 1928. He mistakenly thought it was a bay and named it Evans Inlet . Measurements by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1955 revealed the true nature of the property. Name giver is Edward Steptoe Evans (1879-1945), manager of Wilkins' Detroit Arctic Expedition (1925-1926).
Web links
- Evans Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Evans Glacier on geographic.org (English)