Northeast Glacier

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Northeast Glacier
View from Stonington Island with the buildings of the East Base of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition to the mouth of the Northeast Glacier in Marguerite Bay

View from Stonington Island with the buildings of the East Base of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition to the mouth of the Northeast Glacier in Marguerite Bay

location Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
length 21 km (roughly estimated)
width Max. 8 km (at the mouth)
Coordinates 68 ° 9 ′  S , 66 ° 58 ′  W Coordinates: 68 ° 9 ′  S , 66 ° 58 ′  W
Northeast Glacier (Antarctic Peninsula)
Northeast Glacier
drainage Marguerite Bay
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The Northeast Glacier is a steep and highly rugged glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows westwards from McLeod Hill and then southwest to Marguerite Bay on the Fallières coast of Graham Land , which it reaches between the Debenham Islands and the Roman Four Promontory .

A first geodetic survey of the area was made in 1936 by participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . Another investigation was carried out in 1940 by scientists from the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941), who used this glacier as a route for a dog sled excursion and so named it because it northeast (English: northeast ) to the base station of the expedition on the Stonington Island lies.

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