Saussure Glacier

Saussure Glacier
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location	Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Mountains	Tyndall Mountains
Coordinates	67 ° 11 ′ S , 67 ° 3 ′ W Coordinates: 67 ° 11 ′ S , 67 ° 3 ′ W
drainage	Lallemand Fjord

The Saussure Glacier is a glacier on the Loubet coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . On the Arrowsmith Peninsula, it flows from the Tyndall Mountains in a north-easterly direction to Lallemand Fjord .

The first aerial photographs were taken in 1957 during the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1984 after the Geneva naturalist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740–1799), who in 1787 was the first to recognize that large boulders can be moved over great distances by glacial rivers.

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