Nueve de Julio glacier
| Nueve de Julio glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 26 ′ S , 66 ° 52 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Bertrand Piedmont Glacier | |
The Nueve-de-Julio-Glacier ( Spanish Glaciar Nueve de Julio 'Glacier of July 9th' ) is a wide glacier on the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows from the Black Thumb and the neighboring mountain ridges in a south-westerly direction to the Bertrand-Piedmont Glacier in Rymill Bay .
Argentine scientists named it in 1978 after Argentina's Independence Day .
Web links
- Nueve de Julio Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nueve de Julio Glacier on geographic.org (English)