Jupiter glacier
| Jupiter glacier | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| length | 16 km | |
| width | Max. 8 kilometers | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 54 ′ S , 68 ° 37 ′ W | |
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| drainage | George VI Sound | |
The Jupiter Glacier is a 16 km long and 8 km wide at its mouth 8 km wide glacier on the east coast of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It flows south of the Ablation Valley in an easterly direction to George VI Sound .
Aerial photographs taken by the American polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth on his Antarctic flight on November 23, 1935 were used by the American cartographer WLG Joerg for an initial mapping. Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937), led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill , carried out a rough survey of the glacier in 1936. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey named it after measurements made in 1948 and 1949 after the planet Jupiter .
Web links
- Jupiter Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jupiter Glacier on geographic.org (English)