Melville Glacier

Melville Glacier is a glacier on the east coast of Graham Land in the British Antarctic Territory. It is found between Mapple Glacier and Pequod Glacier.

The glacier is 12 nautical miles long, and slowly flows eastwards between Stevrek Ridge and Parlichev Ridge in the Aristotle Mountains, to enter Exasperation Inlet on the Oscar II Coast, and the Weddell Sea.

The glacier was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from "Hope Bay" in its lower part in November 1947 and over its whole length in October 1955. It 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.

Location

• Location map: 65°28’41"S, 62°22’58"W