Jorquera glacier
| Jorquera glacier | ||
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| location | Greenwich Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 29 ′ S , 59 ° 39 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Discovery Bay | |
The Jorquera Glacier ( Spanish Glaciar Jorquera ) is a glacier on Greenwich Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It flows west from Ash Point and flows into Discovery Bay .
Participants of the 15th Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1960–1961) named him after the expedition leader Pedro Jorquera Goicolea.
Web links
- Jorquera Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jorquera Glacier on geographic.org (English)