Arago Glacier
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The Arago Glacier flows slowly across the Arctowski Peninsula on the Danco Coast of Graham Land in the British Antarctic Territory. It crawls south into Andvord Bay.
This glacier was photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition and surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from Danco Island in 1956-57. It is named in association with the names of pioneers of photogrammetry grouped in this area, in this case after Dominique-François-Jean Arago, French geodesist, who first demonstrated the application of photography to mapping in 1839.
Location
- Location map: 64°49’47"S, 62°22’20"W
References
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Arago Glacier