Rosselin Glacier
| Rosselin Glacier | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Rouen Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 17 ′ S , 70 ° 53 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Palestrina glacier | |
The Rosselin Glacier is a glacier in the north of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . From the Rouen Mountains it flows in a south-westerly direction to the Palestrina Glacier .
The British Antarctic Survey mapped it between 1975 and 1976. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1980 after F. Rosselin, chief engineer on the research vessel Pourquoi-Pas? in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot .
Web links
- Rosselin Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rosselin Glacier on geographic.org (English)