Pan glacier
| Pan glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 11 km | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 50 ′ S , 64 ° 25 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Bowman Inlet | |
The Pan Glacier is an 11 km long glacier on the Bowman Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows in a northerly direction and flows 3 km southwest of the Victory Nunatak into the Bowman Inlet .
WLG Joerg mapped the lower section of the glacier for the first time using aerial photographs taken by the US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth in November 1935. Then in December 1947, participants in the US Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) photographed it . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out measurements of the glacier in December 1958. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1962 after Pan , the shepherd god from Greek mythology.
Web links
- Pan Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pan Glacier on geographic.org (English)