Luke Glacier
| Luke Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 25 km | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 45 ′ S , 63 ° 57 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Leroux Bay | |
The Luke Glacier is a 25 km long glacier on the Graham Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows in a north-westerly direction to the head of the Leroux Bay .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot discovered and roughly mapped it. Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill mapped it again. Rymill named him after the British businessman George Lawson Johnston, 1st Baron Luke of Pavenham (1873-1943), a financier of the research trip .
Web links
- Luke Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Luke Glacier on geographic.org (English)