Grubb Glacier
| Grubb Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 57 ′ S , 62 ° 41 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Lester Cove | |
The Grubb Glacier is a glacier on the Danco coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows west of the Bagshawe Glacier to Lester Cove , a side bay of Andvord Bay .
The glacier was first shown on an Argentine map from 1952. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the Irish optician Thomas Grubb (1800–1878) who developed the first aplanat in 1857 , an optical system in which the aberrations of spherical aberration and coma are corrected.
Web links
- Grubb Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Grubb Glacier on geographic.org (English)