Rachel Glacier
| Rachel Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 10 km | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 34 '54 " S , 62 ° 12' 28" W | |
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| drainage | Larsen Ice Shelf | |
The Rachel Glacier is a 10 km long glacier on the Oskar II coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows in an easterly direction along the northern flank of Mount Baleen to the Larsen Ice Shelf north of Scar Inlet .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee gave it in 1976, like other geographical objects in the area, a name from the thematic area " whales and whaling ". The Rachel is a fictional whalers from Herman Melville's 1851 novel, the released and Moby-Dick .
Web links
- Rachel Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rachel Glacier on geographic.org (English)