Goodenough Glacier
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 57 ′ S , 66 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| drainage | George VI Sound | |
The Goodenough Glacier is a large glacier on the Rymill Coast of the Palmerland in the southern part of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows south of the Batterbee Mountains in a west-southwest direction to George VI Sound .
Participants of the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill discovered him in 1936 while exploring George VI Sound. Rymill named him after Margaret Goodenough, wife of Admiral William Edmund Goodenough (1867-1945) of the Royal Navy , president of the council of the Royal Geographical Society from 1930 to 1933 and one of the main fundraisers to financially support the expedition.
Web links
- Goodenough Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Goodenough Glacier on geographic.org (English)