Leppard Glacier
| Leppard Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Type | Valley glacier | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 57 ′ S , 62 ° 57 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Scar Inlet | |
The Leppard Glacier is a large valley glacier on the Oskar II coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows east to Scar Inlet , which it reaches south of Ishmael Peak .
It was discovered by the Australian polar explorer Hubert Wilkins during an overflight on December 20, 1928. The glacier was mapped in 1955 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Wilkins originally named it the Crane Channel , believing it was part of the system of the Crane Glacier further north . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee lifted this mistake and named the glacier in 1957 after the British geodesist Norman Arthur George Leppard (1932-1998), who was involved in the surveying of this area by the FIDS.
Web links
- Leppard Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Leppard Glacier on geographic.org (English)