McArthur Glacier
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 20 ′ S , 67 ° 26 ′ W | |
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| drainage | George VI Sound , Bellingshausen Lake | |
The McArthur Glacier is a small glacier on the Rymill Coast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows between Christie Peaks and Swine Hill in a westerly direction to George VI Sound .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1977 after the British geophysicist Alistair Hugh McArthur (* 1941), who worked for the British Antarctic Survey from 1967 to 1968 on Stonington Island .
Web links
- McArthur Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McArthur Glacier on geographic.org (English)