Liotard Glacier
| Liotard Glacier | ||
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| location | Adélieland , East Antarctica | |
| length | 10 km | |
| width | Max. 5 km | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 139 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| drainage | Lake D'Urville | |
The Liotard Glacier is a 10 km long and up to 5 km wide glacier in the East Antarctic Adélieland . It flows from the Antarctic Ice Sheet in a north-northeast direction and flows into the D'Urville Sea in the form of a small glacier tongue around 6 km west of Hélène Island .
Aerial photographs of the US American Operation Highjump (1946–1947) were used to map it. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1955 after André-Franck Liotard (1905-1982), head of a French Antarctic expedition (1949-1951), during which the survey of the coastline far west of this glacier was completed.
Web links
- Liotard Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Liotard Glacier on geographic.org (English)