Wheatstone Glacier
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 45 ′ S , 62 ° 27 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Errera Canal | |
The Wheatstone Glacier is a glacier on the Danco Coast in west Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows west on the Arctowski Peninsula to the Errera Canal .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery made the first mapping. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the British physicist Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875) who invented the first mirror stereoscope in 1833 .
Web links
- Wheatstone Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wheatstone Glacier on geographic.org (English)