Melville Glacier
Glacier in Antarctica
Melville Glacier (65°28′S 62°10′W / 65.467°S 62.167°W / -65.467; -62.167) is a glacier, 12 nautical miles (22 km) long, between Mapple Glacier and Pequod Glacier on the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It flows eastwards between Stevrek Ridge and Parlichev Ridge in the Aristotle Mountains, to enter Domlyan Bay in the Weddell Sea. It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947 and 1955, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Herman Melville, the author of the 1851 novel Moby-Dick. Several other features in the area, such as Mount Ahab, are named after characters in the story.[1]
References
- ^ "Melville Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2013-09-17.
This article incorporates public domain material from "Melville Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
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- Adélie Land
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- Heard Island and McDonald Islands
- James Ross Island and Graham Land
- Kaiser Wilhelm II Land
- Kemp Land
- Mac. Robertson Land
- Marie Byrd Land
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- Palmer Archipelago and Graham Land
- Palmer Land
- Princess Elizabeth Land
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- Queen Mary Land
- Queen Maud Land
- Ross Dependency
- South Georgia
- South Shetland Islands
- South Orkney Islands
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- Victoria Land
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