Français glacier
| Français glacier | ||
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| location | Adélieland , East Antarctica | |
| length | 20 km | |
| width | Max. 6 km | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 33 ′ S , 138 ° 15 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Lake D'Urville | |
The Français Glacier is a 20 km long and 6 km wide glacier in the East Antarctic Adélieland . It flows from the continental ice in a north-northeast direction to the coast, which it reaches immediately west of the Baie des Ravins . It flows into the D'Urville Sea in the form of a glacier tongue ( 66 ° 31 ′ S , 138 ° 15 ′ E ).
The first sighting of the glacier probably goes back to the third French Antarctic expedition (1837-1840) under the direction of the polar explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville . Participants of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911–1914) camped in December 1912 on heights immediately east of the glacier without mentioning it in their records. A first position determination was only made on the basis of aerial photographs of the US American Operation Highjump (1946–1947). An expedition (1952–1953) led by the French polar explorer Mario Marret (1920–2000) undertook a sledge excursion over the sea ice to the ice cliffs immediately east of the glacier. It is named after the Français , the ship of the fourth French Antarctic expedition (1903-1905) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot .
Web links
- Français Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Français Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Français Glacier Tongue . Information on geographic.org (accessed October 22, 2017).