Polaris glacier
| Polaris glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Detroit plateau | |
| length | 6 km | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 12 ′ 28 ″ S , 59 ° 34 ′ 44 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Larsen Inlet | |
The Polaris Glacier is a 6 km long glacier on the Nordenskjöld coast in the east of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows south from the Detroit Plateau between the Pyke and Eliason Glaciers to Larsen Inlet .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out surveys between 1960 and 1961. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1964 after a snowmobile made by the US company Polaris Industries , which has been in use in Antarctica since the 1960s .
Web links
- Polaris Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Polaris Glacier on geographic.org (English)