Palestrina glacier
| Palestrina glacier | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| length | 18 km | |
| width | ⌀ 13 km | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 22 ′ S , 71 ° 15 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Lazarev Bay | |
The Palestrina Glacier is a glacier in the north of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It flows westward from the Nichols snowfield into Lasarev Bay .
Aerial photographs that were taken during the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) under the direction of the American polar explorer Finn Ronne were used by the British geographer Derek Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960 for mapping. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the glacier in 1961 after the Italian composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525–1594).
Web links
- Palestrina Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Palestrina Glacier on geographic.org (English)