Paget glacier
| Paget glacier | ||
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| location | South Georgia | |
| Mountains | Allardyce Range | |
| length | 6 km | |
| width | Max. 1.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 24 ′ 55 ″ S , 36 ° 29 ′ 10 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Nordenskjöld glacier | |
The Paget Glacier is a 6 km long and 1.5 km wide glacier on South Georgia . In the Allardyce Range it flows from the northern slopes of Mount Paget in a north-easterly direction and flows into the western flank of the Nordenskjöld glacier .
Participants in a research trip to South Georgia (1928–1930) led by the German explorer Ludwig Kohl-Larsen carried out rough measurements of the glacier. The South Georgia Survey , which named it after the name of the mountain of the same name, measured it again between 1951 and 1952. The mountain is named after the British Admiral Alfred Wyndham Paget (1852-1918), who had commanded a squadron of the Royal Navy , from which the HMS Sappho had been recalled in 1906 for an exploration trip to South Georgia.
Web links
- Paget Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Paget Glacier on geographic.org (English)