Funk glacier
| Funk glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 34 ′ S , 63 ° 39 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Nevsha Cove | |
The Funk Glacier is a glacier on the Graham Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows south of Frölich Peak into Nevsha Cove , a side bay of Beascochea Bay .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910), led by polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot, discovered and mapped it for the first time. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 after the Polish-US biochemist Casimir Funk (1884-1967), who coined the term vitamin in 1912 .
Web links
- Funk Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Funk Glacier on geographic.org (English)