Blériot Glacier
Location of Danco Coast on the Antarctic Peninsula
Map showing the location of Blériot Glacier
Map showing the location of Blériot Glacier
Location of Blériot Glacier in Antarctica
LocationGraham Land
Coordinates64°25′00″S 61°10′00″W / 64.41667°S 61.16667°W / -64.41667; -61.16667
Thicknessunknown
Highest elevation631 m (2,070 ft)
Statusunknown

Blériot Glacier (64°25′S 61°10′W / 64.417°S 61.167°W / -64.417; -61.167) is a short, but wide, glacier lying east of Salvesen Cove and Zimzelen Glacier and southwest of Cayley Glacier on Danco Coast, Graham Land in Antarctica. Photographed by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in 1956–57, and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, it was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for Louis Blériot (1872–1936), a French aviator who in 1907 flew the first full-size powered monoplane, and who made the first flight across the English Channel in July 1909.

See also

References

  • SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
  • Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Blériot Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.


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