Naess glacier
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 22 ′ S , 67 ° 51 ′ W | |
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| drainage | George VI Sound | |
The Naess Glacier is a small glacier on the Rymill coast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows west to George VI Sound . A rocky mountain ridge separates it from the Chapman Glacier to the north .
The first measurements of the glacier were made in 1936 by participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1954 after the Norwegian Erling Dekke Næss (1901-1993) from the Vestfold Whaling Company , who had extensively supported the British Graham Land Expedition.
Web links
- Naess Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Naess Glacier on geographic.org (English)