Laënnec glacier
| Laënnec glacier | ||
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| location | Brabant Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| length | 5 km | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 12 ′ 3 ″ S , 62 ° 13 ′ 20 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Hill Bay | |
The Laënnec Glacier is a 5 km long glacier on the east side of the Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows northeast to Hill Bay .
Aerial photos by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. from 1956 to 1957 were used for mapping in 1959. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the French doctor René Laënnec (1781-1826), the inventor of the stethoscope .
Web links
- Laënnec Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Laënnec Glacier on geographic.org (English)