Reid Glacier (West Antarctica)
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location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
length | 13 km | |
width | ⌀ 2.5 km | |
Coordinates | 67 ° 26 ′ S , 67 ° 17 ′ W | |
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drainage | Bigourdan Fjord |
The Reid Glacier is a glacier on the Loubet coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows south on the Arrowsmith Peninsula to Bigourdan Fjord , which it reaches on the opposite side of The Narrows .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937), led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill , made an initial, rough mapping. The lower section of the glacier was explored by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey between 1948 and 1949 . He named the glacier after the US geophysicist Harry Fielding Reid (1859-1944), a pioneer of glacier research in Alaska and the Alps .
Web links
- Reid Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Reid Glacier on geographic.org (English)