Comrie Glacier
Glacier in Antarctica
Comrie Glacier (65°48′S 64°20′W / 65.800°S 64.333°W / -65.800; -64.333) is a glacier 13 nautical miles (24 km) long, flowing west to enter the head of Bigo Bay on the west coast of Graham Land. It was first sighted and roughly surveyed by the French Antarctic Expedition in 1909. It was resurveyed in 1935–36 by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE), and later named for Leslie J. Comrie, founder and first director of the Scientific Computing Service Ltd, London, who, as superintendent of HM Nautical Almanac Office in 1934, greatly assisted the BGLE, 1934–37, by providing advance copies of The Nautical Almanac up to 1937.[1]
References
- ^ "Comrie Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
This article incorporates public domain material from "Comrie Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
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- Adélie Land
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- Coats Land
- Ellsworth Land
- Enderby Land
- Graham Land
- Heard Island and McDonald Islands
- James Ross Island and Graham Land
- Kaiser Wilhelm II Land
- Kemp Land
- Mac. Robertson Land
- Marie Byrd Land
- Oates Land
- Palmer Archipelago and Graham Land
- Palmer Land
- Princess Elizabeth Land
- Queen Elizabeth Land
- Queen Mary Land
- Queen Maud Land
- Ross Dependency
- South Georgia
- South Shetland Islands
- South Orkney Islands
- Trinity Peninsula and Graham Land
- Victoria Land
- Wilkes Land
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