Sabine Glacier
| Sabine Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 55 ′ S , 59 ° 47 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Orléans Street | |
The Sabine Glacier is a glacier on the Davis Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows into Orléans Street between Cape Wennersgaard and Cape Kater .
In February 1829, the British polar explorer Henry Foster named an object southeast of Cape Kater as Cape Sabine . However, this supposed cape could not be identified. Therefore, the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee transferred the designation to the glacier described here on September 23, 1960. It is named after the Irish astronomer and geodesist Edward Sabine (1788-1883), a member of the planning committee for Foster's Antarctic voyage with the HMS Chanticleer in 1829.
Web links
- Sabine Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sabine Glacier on geographic.org (English)