Wiggins glacier
| Wiggins glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Bruce Plateau | |
| length | 16 km | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 13 ′ S , 63 ° 55 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Penola Strait | |
The Wiggins Glacier is a glacier on the Graham Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows from the Bruce Plateau in a westerly direction to Penola Strait , which it reaches south of the Blanchard Ridge ridge .
The glacier was discovered during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcots . Charcot named it as Glacier du Milieu ( German Mittelgletscher ). This designation was rejected in 1959 by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in a request for a more specific designation . It is named after William Denison Clare Wiggins (1905–1971), deputy head of the British Directorate of Overseas Surveys (DOS).
Web links
- Wiggins Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wiggins Glacier on geographic.org (English)