Sharp glacier
| Sharp glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 22 ′ S , 66 ° 26 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Lallemand Fjord | |
The Sharp Glacier is a glacier on the Loubet Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows north to Lallemand Fjord , which it reaches east of the Boyle Mountains at the base of the Arrowsmith Peninsula .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped the area from 1948 to 1959 through survey work and aerial photography . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the American geologist Robert Phillip Sharp (1911-2004), who undertook numerous studies on glaciers and their flow behavior.
Web links
- Sharp Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sharp Glacier on geographic.org (English)