Smaug glacier
| Smaug glacier | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Mountains | Finlandia Foothills | |
| length | 3 km | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 55 ′ 41 ″ S , 70 ° 5 ′ 24 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Sibelius Glacier | |
The Smaug Glacier is a 3 km long glacier on Alexander I Island west of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the center of the Finlandia Foothills, it flows from Dragon Peak in a south-easterly direction to the Sibelius Glacier .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2018. It is named after the dragon Smaug from the 1937 fantasy novel The Hobbit by the British writer JRR Tolkien .
Web links
- Smaug Glacier . Entry in the database of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for the Antarctic Peninsula, the South Shetland and the South Orkney Islands (English)