Perutz glacier
| Perutz glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 16 km | |
| width | ⌀ 3 km | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 37 ′ S , 66 ° 24 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Bourgeois Fjord | |
The Perutz Glacier is a 16 km long and 3 km wide glacier on the Fallières coast in the west of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows in a west-northwest direction to the Bourgeois Fjord , which it reaches just east of Thomson Head .
The mouth of the glacier was measured in 1936 during the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey took measurements of the entire glacier between 1946 and 1947 and 1947 and 1948 and named it after the British chemist and Nobel Prize winner Max Ferdinand Perutz (1914–2002), who made significant contributions to the understanding of glacier dynamics .
Individual evidence
- ^ MF Perutz: The Flow of Glaciers . In: Nature . tape 172 , 1953, pp. 929-932 , doi : 10.1038 / 172929a0 (English).
Web links
- Perutz Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Perutz Glacier on geographic.org (English)