Rush glacier
| Rush glacier | ||
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| location | Brabant Island ( Palmer Archipelago , West Antarctica ) | |
| Mountains | Solvay Mountains | |
| length | 6.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 22 '45 " S , 62 ° 34' 6" W | |
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| drainage | Buragara Cove | |
The Rush Glacier is a 6.5 km long glacier in the Solvay Mountains on Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows westward and originally flowed into Dallmann Bay between Fleming Point and Humann Point . With the retreat of the glacier at the beginning of the 21st century , its mouth is now in the Buragara Cove , a side bay of the Dallmann Bay that was previously covered by the glacier's ice masses.
The glacier appears nameless on Argentine maps from 1953. It was photographed between 1956 and 1957 by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. These aerial photographs were used for mapping in 1959. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the glacier after the American doctor and philanthropist Benjamin Rush (1745–1813), one of the signatories of the United States' Declaration of Independence and one of the founding fathers of the United States .
Web links
- Rush Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rush Glacier on geographic.org (English)