Keith Glacier

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Keith Glacier
location Grahamland ( Antarctic Peninsula )
length 7.5 km
width ⌀ 5 km
Coordinates 66 ° 19 ′ 0 ″  S , 65 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 66 ° 19 ′ 0 ″  S , 65 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  W
Keith Glacier (Antarctic Peninsula)
Keith Glacier
drainage Darbel Bay

The Keith Glacier is a 7.5 km long and 5 km wide glacier on the Graham Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . On the Strescher Peninsula, it flows from the Widmark-Piedmont Glacier in a south-westerly direction to Darbel Bay .

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2016. It is named after the British artist, illustrator and conservationist Keith Shackleton (1923–2015), a pioneer of Antarctic tourism since 1969.

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