Stancomb Wills Glacier
| Stancomb Wills Glacier | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 18 ′ S , 19 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Weddell Sea | |
The Stancomb-Wills Glacier is a large glacier on the Princess Martha Coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It flows south of Lyddan Island into the Weddell Sea . The glacier was discovered on November 5, 1967 during a flight of the United States Navy and mapped by the United States Geological Survey based on the aerial photographs taken. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1969 based on the naming of the glacier tongue described below .
The Stancomb-Wills glacier tongue ( 75 ° 0 ′ S , 22 ° 0 ′ W ) is the extensive extension of the glacier into the eastern Weddell Sea. It was discovered in January 1915 during the endurance expedition (1914-1917) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton . Shackleton mistakenly thought it was a promontory and named it Stancomb-Wills Promontory after Janet Stancomb-Wills (1854-1932), one of the main financiers of the expedition. In 1970 the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names adapted the name to the actual nature of the object.
Web links
- Stancomb-Wills Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stancomb-Wills Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
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↑ Stancomb-Wills Glacier Tongue in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
Stancomb-Wills Glacier Tongue on geographic.org (English)