Gain glacier
| Gain glacier | ||
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Cat Ridge | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 7 ′ S , 61 ° 38 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Larsen Ice Shelf | |
The Gain Glacier is a large glacier on the Black Coast of the Palmerland in the south of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows in a north-easterly direction from the Cat Ridge to the southern foothills of the Larsen Ice Shelf , which it reaches between the Imshaug Peninsula and Morency Island .
The area was mapped by the United States Geological Survey in 1974. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the glacier in 1976 after the French naturalist Louis Gain (1883-1963), participant in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the leadership by Jean-Baptiste Charcot .
Web links
- Gain Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gain Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Louis Albert René Gain , bibliographic entry on the homepage of the Société botanique de France (French, accessed December 27, 2015).