Irvine glacier
| Irvine glacier | ||
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 60 km | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 33 ′ S , 63 ° 16 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Gardner Inlet | |
The Irvine Glacier is a glacier on the Lassiter Coast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows between the Guettard Range and the Rare Range in the northern section of Gardner Inlet .
He was discovered during the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) under the direction of the US polar explorer Finn Ronne . Ronne named him after George J. Irvine (1913-1984), who was involved as an engineer in the United States Army Corps of Engineers at Fort Belvoir in the development of the photographic program of the Ronne expedition.
Web links
- Irvine Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Irvine Glacier on geographic.org (English)