Woodbury Glacier
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 47 ′ S , 62 ° 18 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Piccard Cove | |
The Woodbury Glacier is a glacier on the Danco Coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows directly northwest of the Montgolfier Glacier into Piccard Cove , a side bay of Wilhelmina Bay .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped it using aerial photographs from Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in the years from 1956 to 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee it appointed on 23 September 1960 after the British photography pioneer Walter B. Woodbury (1834-1885), the 1864 woodburytype and 1,877 cameras for aerial photography using balloons and kites developed would have.
Web links
- Woodbury Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Woodbury Glacier on geographic.org (English)