Viéville glacier
| Viéville glacier | ||
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| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 10 ′ S , 58 ° 20 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Geophysicists Cove , Lussich Cove, and Martel Inlet | |
The Viéville Glacier ( French Glacier Viéville ) is a glacier on King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . On the east bank of Admiralty Bay , it extends just south of the Krak Glacier over a length of 6 km between Manczarski Point and Point Hennequin .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot mapped and named him. The further naming background has not been passed down. The glacier has been on the decline since the mid-1950s.
Web links
- Viéville, glaciar on the homepage of the Australian Antarctic Data Center (English)