Clarke Glacier

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Clarke Glacier is the name of three different Antarctic glaciers.

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[edit] Clarke Glacier, 68°48′S, 66°56′W

Clarke Glacier, GNIS Antarctica ID 2827, 68°48′S 066°56′WCoordinates: 68°48′S 066°56′W, is a 2 mile wide, 20 mile long glacier, located on the west coast of Graham Island in Antarctica. It flows west, along the north side of Sickle Mountain and the Baudin Peaksm, to Mikkelsen Bay.

It was first surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) (1934-1937) under John Rymill. In January 1941, it was traversed near its head by a United States Antarctic Service (USAS) sledge party. The lower reaches of the glacier were surveyed in 1948-1949 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), who named the glacier (decision year 1955).

The glacier was named for Louis C.G. Clarke, director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge from 1937 to 1946, who "greatly assisted the BGLE."

[edit] Clarke Glacier, 75°34′S, 162°05′E

Clarke Glacier, GNIS Antarctica ID 2828, 75°34′S 162°05′ECoordinates: 75°34′S 162°05′E, is a 5 mile long glacier, which drains east to the coast of Victoria Land, immediately north of Lewandowski Point. The seaward extremity of this glacier merges with the flow of Davis Glacier and other glaciers from the south and contributes to the floating tongue of ice between Cape Reynolds and Lamplugh Island.

The glacier was discovered and named by the British Imperial Antarctic Expedition (BrAE) (1907-1909) under Ernest Shackleton.

[edit] Clarke Glacier, 75°11′S, 139°06′W

Clarke Glacier, GNIS Antarctica ID 18339, 75°11′S 139°06′WCoordinates: 75°11′S 139°06′W, is a 8 mile long glacier that drains from Coulter Heights to Hull Bay. It was named in 2003 by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN).

It was named after Theodore S. Clarke, a University of Wisconsin-Madison geophysicist whose research in the 1990s focused on theoretical and field analysis of the ice stream area of West Antarctica.

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This article incorporates text in the public domain from the United States Department of the Interior.
  • Clarke Glacier, ID 2827. Antarctica Feature Detail. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior. Retrieved on 2007-06-24.
  • Clarke Glacier, ID 18339. Antarctica Feature Detail. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior. Retrieved on 2007-06-24.
  • Clarke Glacier, ID 2828. Antarctica Feature Detail. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior. Retrieved on 2007-06-24.

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