Zélée glacier
| Zélée glacier | ||
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| location | Adélieland , East Antarctica | |
| length | 10 km | |
| width | Max. 5 km | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ S , 141 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| drainage | Port Martin | |
The Zélée Glacier is a 10 km long and 5 km wide glacier in the East Antarctic Adélieland . It flows from the Antarctic continental ice in north-westerly direction along the western edge of the Lacroix-Nunatak and flows in the form of a distinctive, 3 km wide and 11 km long glacial tongue ( 66 ° 47 ' S , 141 ° 10' O ) on the west side of the port Martin in the D'Urville Lake .
It was probably the French polar explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville who discovered him in 1840 during the Third French Antarctic Expedition (1837–1940), although his maps of this stretch of coast do not contain any glaciers. Aerial photographs were taken in January 1947 during the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947). French scientists mapped it during an expedition that lasted from 1949 to 1951 and named it after the corvette Zélée , the escort of d'Urville's Astrolabe .
Web links
- French gunboat Zélée Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Zélée Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Zélée Glacier Tongue at geographic.org (accessed December 11, 2016).