Tumble Glacier
| Tumble Glacier | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Mountains | Douglas Range | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 58 ′ S , 69 ° 23 ′ W | |
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| drainage | George VI Sound | |
The Tumble Glacier (from English tumble , fall, overturn, overturn ) is a glacier on the east coast of the Alexander I Island west of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Douglas Range it flows from the cliffs of Mount Egbert , Mount Ethelwulf and Mount Ethelred in an easterly direction to George VI Sound .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition , led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill , carried out a first rough survey in 1937. The Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey specified this in 1948. The name given to the descriptive name is the massive ice faults in the lower section of the glacier.
Web links
- Tumble Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tumble Glacier on geographic.org (English)