Melville glacier
| Melville glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 19 km | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 29 ′ S , 62 ° 23 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Exasperation Inlet | |
The Melville Glacier is a 19 km long glacier on the Oskar II coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows in an easterly direction between the Mapple Glacier and the Pequod Glacier to the Exasperation Inlet , which it reaches south of Mount Ahab .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out geodetic surveys in 1947 and 1955. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 1957 after Herman Melville (1819-1891), author of the 1851 novel Moby-Dick .
Web links
- Melville Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Melville Glacier on geographic.org (English)