Rozier glacier
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 45 ′ S , 62 ° 9 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Piccard Cove | |
The Rozier Glacier is a glacier on the Danco coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows to Piccard Cove , a side bay of Wilhelmina Bay , which it reaches immediately north of the Sophie cliff .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897-1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery mapped him. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on September 23, 1960 after the French physicist Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1754-1795), who in 1783 carried out the first free balloon flight together with François d'Arlandes .
Web links
- Rozier Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rozier Glacier on geographic.org (English)