Peter Glacier
| Peter Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Protector Heights | |
| length | 12 km | |
| width | Max. 5 km | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 38 ′ S , 66 ° 15 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Darbel Bay | |
The Peter Glacier is a 12 km long and 5 km wide glacier on the Pernik Peninsula on the Loubet Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows from Protector Heights in a northerly direction to Darbel Bay , into which it joins east of the Škorpil Glacier .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2016. It is named after the British conservationist Peter Markham Scott (1909–1989), son of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott (1868–1912), co-founder and first Vice President of the WWF .
Web links
- Peter Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)