Forel glacier
| Forel glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 6.5 km | |
| width | Max. 2.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 27 '46 " S , 66 ° 28' 35" W | |
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| drainage | Blind Bay | |
The Forel Glacier is a glacier in the west of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . On the Fallières coast, it flows in a south-westerly direction into Blind Bay .
A first rough survey was carried out in 1936 by participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . Another survey of the lower section of the glacier was undertaken in 1949 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . The glacier is named after the Swiss naturalist François-Alphonse Forel (1841–1912), first president of the Commission Internationale des Glaciers , from which the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS) of the International Union for Geodesy and Geophysics later emerged.
Web links
- Forel Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Forel Glacier on geographic.org (English)