Romulus glacier
| Romulus glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 11 km | |
| width | Max. 3 km | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 23 ′ S , 66 ° 50 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Rymill Bay | |
The Romulus Glacier is a 11 km long and 3 km wide glacier on the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows from the northern slopes of Mount Lupa in a westerly direction between the Blackwall Mountains and the Black Thumb to Rymill Bay .
Measurements were made in 1936 by participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill and in 1948 and 1949 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . It is named in connection with the nearby Remus Glacier after the brothers Romulus and Remus from Roman mythology .
Web links
- Romulus Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Romulus Glacier on geographic.org (English)