Delius Glacier

Delius Glacier (69°37′S 71°3′W / 69.617°S 71.050°W / -69.617; -71.050Coordinates: 69°37′S 71°3′W / 69.617°S 71.050°W / -69.617; -71.050) is a glacier, 6 nautical miles (11 km) long and 2 nautical miles (4 km) wide, flowing west from the Elgar Uplands into Nichols Snowfield, in the northern part of Alexander Island, Antarctica. It was first seen from the air and roughly mapped by the British Graham Land Expedition in 1937. It was more accurately mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1947–48, by D. Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960, and from U.S. Landsat imagery of February 1975. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Frederick Delius, the British composer.[1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Delius Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-01-06.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Delius Glacier" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/21/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.