Alberts Glacier Explained

Alberts Glacier
Map:Antarctica
Mark:Blue_pog.svg
Type:heavily crevassed
Location:Graham Land
Coordinates:-66.8667°N -117°W
Length:7nmi
Thickness:unknown
Elevation Max:155m (509feet)
Terminus:Mill Inlet
Status:unknown

Alberts Glacier (-66.8667°N -117°W) is a heavily crevassed glacier in Antarctica. It is about 8miles long, and flows east from Avery Plateau, Graham Land, until entering Mill Inlet between Balch Glacier and Southard Promontory.

History

The glacier was photographed from the air by the U.S. Navy in 1968. It was delineated from these photographs by Directorate of Overseas Surveys, 1980, and positioned from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, 1947 - 57. In association with the names of Antarctic historians around the area, it was named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Fred G. Alberts, an American toponymist, and secretary of the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names 1949 - 80.

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