Torlegård glacier
| Torlegård glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland ( Antarctic Peninsula ) | |
| length | 6 km | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ S , 66 ° 52 ′ 30 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Square Bay | |
The Torlegård Glacier is a 6 km long glacier on the Fallières coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows east of Mount Wilcox in a northwest direction to Square Bay .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2016. It is named after the Swede Anders Kennert Ingemar Torlegård (1937–2016) from the Royal Stockholm University of Technology , Secretary General (1984–1988) and Chairman (1988–1992) of the International Society for Photogrammetry and remote sensing .
Web links
- Torlegård Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)