Archer Glacier

Archer Glacier
Location of Archer Glacier in Antarctica
Location	Graham Land
Coordinates	65°10′S 63°5′W / 65.167°S 63.083°W / -65.167; -63.083
Thickness	unknown
Highest elevation	406 m (1,332 ft)
Terminus	Bolson Cove
Status	unknown

Archer Glacier (65°10′S 63°5′W / 65.167°S 63.083°W / -65.167; -63.083) is a glacier flowing northwest into the head of Bolson Cove, Flandres Bay, on the west coast of Graham Land.

History

Archer Glacier was first charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Adrien de Gerlache, 1897–99, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for Frederick Scott Archer, an English architect who in 1849 invented the wet collodion process of photography, the first practical process on glass.

See also

• List of glaciers in the Antarctic
• Glaciology

References

•  This article incorporates public domain material from "Archer Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

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