Renard glacier
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 41 ′ S , 61 ° 41 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Charlotte Bay | |
The Renard Glacier is a glacier on the Danco coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows into the southernmost part of Charlotte Bay on Gerlache Strait .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery mapped it. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the French aviation pioneer Charles Renard (1847-1905), who in 1884, together with Arthur Constantin Krebs, built and flown the first fully controllable airship .
Web links
- Renard Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Renard Glacier on geographic.org (English)