Meridian Glacier
| Meridian Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 14 km | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 44 ′ S , 66 ° 37 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Clarke Glacier | |
The Meridian Glacier is a large and 14 km long glacier on the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows south along the west flank of Godfrey Upland to Clarke Glacier , which it reaches between Behaim Peak and Elton Hill .
The US polar explorers Finn Ronne and Carl R. Eklund (1909–1962) explored the glacier in January 1941 during the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941). During the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948) the first aerial photographs were taken in November 1947. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey took measurements of the glacier in December 1958. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it that way in 1962 because the glacier flows from north to south along a meridian .
Web links
- Meridian Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Meridian Glacier on geographic.org (English)