Iliad glacier
| Iliad glacier | ||
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| location | Anvers Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 27 ′ S , 63 ° 27 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Lapeyrère Bay | |
The Iliad Glacier is a glacier that flows from the central highlands on Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago between the Achaean Range and the Trojan Range to Lapeyrère Bay .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out a survey of the glacier in 1955. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1957 after Homer's Iliad ( English Iliad ).
Web links
- Iliad Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Iliad Glacier on geographic.org (English)