Todd glacier
| Todd glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 11 km | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 2 ′ S , 66 ° 59 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Calmette Bay | |
The Todd Glacier is 11 km glacier at the Fallières coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows in a south-westerly direction to Calmette Bay .
He was photographed in 1947 during an overflight as part of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948) under the direction of the US polar explorer Finn Ronne . It was measured by the British Antarctic Survey in 1961 and 1962. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after Gertrude Evelyn Todd (* 1927), research assistant and publicist of the survey in the London office between 1950 and 1963.
Web links
- Todd Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Todd Glacier on geographic.org (English)