Pluto glacier
| Pluto glacier | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
| length | 16 km | |
| width | Max. 6 km | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 7 ′ S , 68 ° 22 ′ W | |
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| drainage | George VI Sound , Bellingshausen Lake | |
The Pluto Glacier is a 16 km long and 6 km wide glacier on the east coast of Alexander I Island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows east to George VI Sound , which it reaches north of the Succession Cliffs .
The US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth took the first aerial photographs during his transantarctic flight on November 23, 1935. These were used by the US cartographer WLG Joerg for mapping. Participants of the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937), led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill , took measurements in 1936, which the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1948 and 1949 repeated. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1955 after the (dwarf) planet Pluto .
Web links
- Pluto Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pluto Glacier on geographic.org (English)