Gibbs glacier
| Gibbs glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 28 ′ S , 66 ° 1 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Mercator Piedmont Glacier , Weddell Sea | |
The Gibbs Glacier is 24 km long glacier on the Bowman Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows in a south-easterly direction into the northern part of the Mercator Piedmont Glacier . Together with the Neny Glacier, which flows in a north-westerly direction, it lies in a diagonal depression between the Mercator Piedmont Glacier on the east coast and the Neny Fjord on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.
The United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941) and the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) carried out aerial photographs and first mapping . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1962 after the geodesist Peter McCausland Gibbs (* 1934) who, together with his colleague Peter Derek Forster (1935-1996), carried out the first survey of the glacier on site in 1958 for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey made.
Web links
- Gibbs Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gibbs Glacier on geographic.org (English)