Yates glacier
| Yates glacier | ||
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 52 ′ S , 62 ° 19 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Lehrke Inlet | |
The Yates Glacier is a glacier on the Black Coast of the Palmerland in the southern part of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows 5 km south of the Matheson Glacier to the west side of the Lehrke Inlet .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1976 after John Yates (* 1946) of the British Antarctic Survey , who was active in the area.
Web links
- Yates Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Yates Glacier on geographic.org (English)