Nye glacier
| Nye glacier | ||
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| location | Arrowsmith Peninsula , Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Exposure | southwest | |
| Altitude range | - 0 m | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 26 ′ S , 67 ° 27 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Whistling Bay | |
The Nye Glacier is a glacier on the Loubet Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . On the Arrowsmith Peninsula, it flows southwest to Whistling Bay .
The glacier was mapped by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . It was named in 1962 after the English physicist John Nye , who made major contributions to the theoretical description of glacier dynamics .
Between 1947 and 2001 the glacier tongue of the Nye-Glacier ( World Glacier Monitoring Service name : Glacier Tongue No. 189 ) retreated by 156 meters.
Individual evidence
- ^ Nye Glacier in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed April 13, 2015
- ^ John Nye, CV (PDF; 83 kB) Retrieved August 28, 2013 .
- ^ AJ Cook, AJ Fox, DG Vaughan, JG Ferrigno: Retreating Glacier Fronts on the Antarctic Peninsula over the Past Half-Century . In: Science 308, No. 5721, 2005, pp. 541-544, supplementary material table S2. doi : 10.1126 / science.1104235 . Quoted from: WGMS (2012, updated, and earlier volumes): Fluctuations of Glaciers 2005-2010 (Vol. X): Zemp, M., Frey, H., Gärtner-Roer, I., Nussbaumer, SU, Hoelzle, M ., Paul, F. & W. Haeberli (eds.), ICSU (WDS) / IUGG (IACS) / UNEP / UNESCO / WMO, World Glacier Monitoring Service, Zurich, Switzerland. doi : 10.5904 / wgms-fog-2014-09