Venus glacier
| Venus glacier | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| length | 16 km | |
| width | ⌀ 10 km | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 36 ′ S , 68 ° 27 ′ W | |
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| drainage | George VI Sound | |
The Venus Glacier is a glacier on the east coast of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It flows east between the Keystone Cliffs and Triton Point to George VI Sound .
The US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth saw him for the first time during an overflight on November 23, 1935. The resulting photographs were used by Ellsworth's compatriot, the geographer WLG Joerg, for rough mapping. In 1949 a survey by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey followed . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after the planet Venus in 1955 .
Web links
- Venus Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Venus Glacier on geographic.org (English)