Lewis glacier
| Lewis glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 44 ′ S , 65 ° 45 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Seligman Inlet | |
The Lewis Glacier is, next to the Ahlmann Glacier, the more northerly of two glaciers that flow into the Seligman Inlet on the Bowman coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula .
Scientists from the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) photographed him from the air in 1940. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out a geodetic survey in 1947 and named the glacier after the British glaciologist William Vaughan Lewis (1907–1961).
Web links
- Lewis Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lewis Glacier on geographic.org (English)