Saturn glacier
| Saturn glacier | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| length | 24 km | |
| width | Max. 10 km | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 56 ′ S , 68 ° 42 ′ W | |
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| drainage | George VI Sound | |
The Sullivan Glacier is a 24 km long and up to 10 km wide glacier on the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It flows in a south-easterly direction to George VI Sound , which it reaches north of the Corner Cliffs .
The US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth first sighted the area around the glacier on his Antarctic flight on November 23, 1935. The aerial photographs taken were used by the US cartographer WLG Joerg for mapping. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey surveyed the glacier in 1949. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on March 31, 1955 after the planet Saturn .
Web links
- Saturn Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Saturn Glacier on geographic.org (English)