Niépce glacier
| Niépce glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 10 ′ S , 63 ° 24 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Lauzanne Cove | |
The Niépce Glacier is a glacier on the Danco coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . Together with the Daguerre Glacier , it flows into the Lauzanne Cove , a side bay of the Bay of Flanders .
The glacier was first shown on an Argentine map from 1954. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the French photography pioneer Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765–1833), the inventor of heliography .
Web links
- Niépce Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Niépce Glacier on geographic.org (English)