Belgica Glacier Explained

Belgica Glacier
Map:Antarctica
Mark:Blue_pog.svg
Location:Graham Land
Coordinates:-65.3833°N -63.8333°W
Length:8nmi
Thickness:unknown
Elevation Max:273m (896feet)
Terminus:Trooz Glacier
Status:unknown

Belgica Glacier is a glacier 8nmi long, flowing into Trooz Glacier to the east of Lancaster Hill on Kyiv Peninsula, on the west coast of Graham Land. It was first charted by the British Graham Land Expedition under John Rymill, 1934–37, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 after the RV Belgica, the ship of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache which explored this area in 1897–99.

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