Gurling glacier
| Gurling glacier | ||
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 34 ′ S , 62 ° 23 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Smith Inlet , Weddell Sea | |
The Gurling Glacier is a glacier on the Wilkins Coast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows from Krebs Ridge and Leininger Peak into the southwestern part of Smith Inlet .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1976 after Peter William Gurling (* 1946), who worked as a geodesist for the British Antarctic Survey between 1972 and 1973 in the vicinity of this glacier.
Web links
- Gurling Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gurling Glacier on geographic.org (English)