Trooz glacier
| Trooz glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 24 km | |
| width | Max. 2.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 21 ′ S , 63 ° 46 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Collins Bay | |
The Trooz Glacier is a 15 miles long glacier on the Graham Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows in the southern part of the Kiev Peninsula in a westerly direction and flows into Collins Bay .
The glacier was discovered during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot . It is named after the Belgian politician Jules de Trooz (1857-1907), who as Belgian Minister of the Interior in obtaining financial resources for the publication of scientific results of the Belgica Expedition (1897-1899) under the direction of the polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomerys helped . The naming took place in 1950 at the suggestion of the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in the course of the naming of Cape Pérez , whose original name as Cap de Trooz was discarded.
Web links
- Trooz Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Trooz Glacier on geographic.org (English)