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Domeyko Glacier

Coordinates: 62°4′S 58°27′W / 62.067°S 58.450°W / -62.067; -58.450
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Domeyko Glacier
Map of King George Island
Map showing the location of Domeyko Glacier
Map showing the location of Domeyko Glacier
Location of Domeyko Glacier in Antarctica
Map showing the location of Domeyko Glacier
Map showing the location of Domeyko Glacier
Domeyko Glacier (Antarctica)
LocationKing George Island
South Shetland Islands
Coordinates62°04′00″S 58°27′0″W / 62.06667°S 58.45000°W / -62.06667; -58.45000
Thicknessunknown
TerminusMackellar Inlet
Statusunknown

Domeyko Glacier is a glacier flowing southeast into Mackellar Inlet, Admiralty Bay, King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. It was named by the Polish Antarctic Expedition, 1980, after Ignacy Domeyko, a Polish born explorer of the Andes and sometime Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy, and Rector, of the University of Chile, Santiago.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Domeyko Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2012-01-24.

62°4′S 58°27′W / 62.067°S 58.450°W / -62.067; -58.450