Koch Glacier
| Koch Glacier | ||
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| location | Brabant Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| length | 11 km | |
| width | Max. 1.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 26 ′ S , 62 ° 28 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Chiriguano Bay | |
The Koch Glacier is a 5 km long glacier in the south of the Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows immediately east of the Jenner Glacier in a southerly direction to Chiriguano Bay .
The glacier appears nameless on an Argentine map from 1953. It was photographed between 1956 and 1957 by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. These aerial photographs were used for mapping in 1959. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the glacier in 1960 after the German physician and microbiologist Robert Koch (1843-1910), who discovered the tubercle bacillus .
Web links
- Koch Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Koch Glacier on geographic.org (English)