Quartermain glacier
| Quartermain glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 1 ′ S , 65 ° 8 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Mill Inlet , Weddell Sea | |
The Quartermain Glacier is a defined and strongly fissured glacier in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows on the northern flank of the Fricker Glacier , from which it is separated in the upper section by Mount Kennett . It flows into Mill Inlet on the Foyn coast .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the glacier on July 21, 1976 after the New Zealand polar historian Lester Bowden Quartermain (1895-1973).
Web links
- Quartermain Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Quartermain Glacier on geographic.org (English)