Cancer Glacier
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 38 ′ S , 61 ° 29 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Charlotte Bay , Gerlache Street | |
The Krebs Glacier is a glacier on the Danco coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows west into the head end of Charlotte Bay .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery mapped it. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the French aviation pioneer Arthur Constantin Krebs (1850-1935), who in 1884, together with Charles Renard and La France , had constructed and flown the first dirigible airship .
Web links
- Cancer Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Krebs Glacier on geographic.org