McCance Glacier
| McCance Glacier | ||
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| location | Graham Land , Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 46 ′ S , 65 ° 54 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Darbel Bay | |
The McCance Glacier is a glacier on the Loubet coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows into Darbel Bay immediately west of the Widdowson Glacier .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped it using aerial photographs from Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. from 1955 to 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 1959 after the British biochemist and physiologist Robert Alexander McCance (1898-1993) of the University of Cambridge , who between 1938 and 1958 was involved in developing concentrated food rations for British Polar expeditions was significantly involved.
Web links
- McCance Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McCance Glacier on geographic.org (English)