Pyke glacier
| Pyke glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Detroit plateau | |
| length | 8 kilometers | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 11 '37 " S , 59 ° 38' 57" W | |
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| drainage | Larsen Inlet | |
The Pyke Glacier is an 8 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 Albone and Polaris 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 the British scientist Geoffrey Nathaniel Pyke (1894-1948), who laid the foundations for the development of the M29 Weasel in 1941 , the first truly successful tracked vehicle for use in polar regions.
Web links
- Pyke Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pyke Glacier on geographic.org (English)