Murphy Glacier
| Murphy Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 58 ′ S , 66 ° 9 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Wilkinson Glacier | |
The Murphy Glacier is a glacier on the Loubet Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows in a mainly westerly direction to Orford Cliff , where it merges into the Wilkinson Glacier before its confluence with Skog Bay on Lallemand Fjord .
It was mapped using aerial photographs from the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE, 1956–1957). It is named after Thomas Leyden Murphy (1927–1985), surveyor's assistant on Detaille Island in 1956 and later head of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Survey .
Web links
- Murphy Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Murphy Glacier on geographic.org (English)