Jobet glacier
| Jobet glacier | ||
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| location | Anvers Island , Palmer Archipelago , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 38 ′ S , 63 ° 11 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Lion sound | |
The Jobet Glacier ( Spanish Glaciar Jobet , in Argentina Glaciar León for Lion Glacier ) is a glacier on the southeast coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is 17.5 km southwest of Ryswyck Point and flows into the Lion Sound .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery discovered him. Chilean scientists named him after Ernesto Jobet Ojeda, commodore of the 24th Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1969–1970). Argentine scientists named it after the name of the Lion Sound.
Web links
- Jobet, Glaciar in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)