Vallot Glacier (67°18′S 67°30′W / 67.300°S 67.500°W) is a glacier flowing northwest to Laubeuf Fjord close south of Lewis Peaks, on Arrowsmith Peninsula in Graham Land. It was mapped by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) from surveys and air photos, 1948–59, and was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Joseph Vallot, a French naturalist and glaciologist who first measured the surface velocity of a glacier over a long period, in Switzerland, 1891–99.[citation needed]
Further reading
edit- Jane G. Ferrigno, Alison J. Cook, Amy M. Mathie, Richard S. Williams, Jr., Charles Swithinbank, Kevin M. Foley, Adrian J. Fox, Janet W. Thomson, and Jörn Sievers, Coastal-Change and Glaciological Map of the Larsen Ice Shelf Area, Antarctica: 1940–2005, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia: 2008
External links
edit- Vallot Glacier on USGS website
- Vallot Glacier on AADC website
- Vallot Glacier on SCAR website
- Vallot Glacier - distance calculator
References
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This article incorporates public domain material from "Vallot Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
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