Snowshoe Glacier
| Snowshoe Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 13 km | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 19 ′ S , 66 ° 35 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Providence Cove | |
The Snowshoe Glacier (English for snowshoe glacier ) is a 13 km long glacier on the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows from a mountain saddle in a westerly direction and flows into Providence Cove , a side bay in the southwest of the Neny Fjord .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937), led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill, mapped it in 1936 and took aerial photographs in 1937. A survey was carried out in 1949 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Kenelm Somerset Priaulx Pierce Butler (1917–1995) from FIDS named it after its shape, which is reminiscent of a snowshoe .
Web links
- Snowshoe Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Snowshoe Glacier on geographic.org (English)