Lange glacier
| Lange glacier | ||
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| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 7 ′ S , 58 ° 31 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Admiralty Bay | |
The Lange Glacier is a glacier on the south coast of King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It flows just south of Admiral Peak into the west side of Admiralty Bay .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot mapped it. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the Norwegian Alexander Lange (1860-1922), a pioneer in the use of factory ships for whaling in waters around the South Shetland Islands between 1905 and 1906.
Web links
- Long Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lange Glacier on geographic.org (English)