Malpighi glacier
| Malpighi glacier | ||
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| location | Brabant Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Mountains | Harvey Heights | |
| length | 8 kilometers | |
| width | Max. 1.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 15 ′ 58 ″ S , 62 ° 16 ′ 59 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Mackenzie Glacier | |
The Malpighi Glacier is an 8 km long and up to 1.5 km wide glacier on the Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows from Harvey Heights in a south-easterly direction and flows into the Mackenzie Glacier .
The first rough mapping goes back to the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery . Aerial photos by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. from 1956 to 1957 were used for mapping in 1959. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the Italian anatomist Marcello Malpighi (1628–1694), a pioneer of histology who succeeded in first demonstrating the existence of blood capillaries .
Web links
- Malpighi Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Malpighi Glacier on geographic.org (English)