Weyerhaeuser Glacier
| Weyerhaeuser Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 54 ′ S , 65 ° 24 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Mercator Piedmont Glacier on Mobiloil Inlet | |
The Weyerhaeuser Glacier is a large glacier on the Bowman Coast of southern Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows north to the Mercator Piedmont Glacier just west of Mobiloil Inlet and is one of the glaciers that limit the Wakefield Highland to the north.
The glacier lies in an area that was explored from the air by the Australian polar explorer Hubert Wilkins in 1928 and the American polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth in 1935. Scientists from the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) first determined their position using aerial photographs they had taken. Participants of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) sighted him again. The expedition leader Finn Ronne named it after the American entrepreneur Frederick King Weyerhaeuser (1895–1978, grandson of Friedrich Weyerhaeuser ), whose company Weyerhaeuser provided timber and insulation material for the research trip.
Web links
- Weyerhaeuser Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Weyerhaeuser Glacier on geographic.org (English)