Sumner Glacier
| Sumner Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 53 ′ S , 65 ° 40 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Weyerhaeuser Glacier | |
The Sumner Glacier is a short and wide glacier on the Bowman Coast of southern Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows in a northeastern direction and flows west of Mount Solus into the lower section of the Weyerhaeuser Glacier .
The British geodesist Douglas Percy Mason (1920–1986) from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) carried out the first cartographic sketch from the air in 1947. In December 1958, the FIDS surveyed the lower section of the glacier. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on August 31, 1961 after the American captain Thomas Sumner (1807–1876), who introduced the position line in astronavigation in 1837 .
Web links
- Sumner Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sumner Glacier on geographic.org (English)