Mapple Glacier
| Mapple Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 24 km | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 25 ′ S , 62 ° 22 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Exasperation Inlet | |
The Mapple Glacier is a 24 km long and narrow glacier on the Oscar II coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows east into the south arm of Exasperation Inlet , which it reaches west-southwest of Delusion Point . A small mountain range, to which Mount Ahab belongs, separates it from the Melville Glacier , which lies 3 km to the south .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out a geodetic survey in 1961. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after Father Mapple , the preacher in Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick .
Web links
- Mapple Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mapple Glacier on geographic.org (English)