Somers glacier
| Somers glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 22 ′ S , 63 ° 33 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Trooz glacier | |
The Somers Glacier is a glacier on the Graham Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows in a north-westerly direction to the Trooz Glacier .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill mapped it for the first time. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 1959 after Henri Somers (1863-1937), chief machinist on the Belgica expedition (1897-1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery .
Web links
- Somers Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Somers Glacier on geographic.org (English)