Daguerre Glacier

Location of Kiev Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula.

Daguerre Glacier (65°7′S 63°25′W / 65.117°S 63.417°W / -65.117; -63.417) is a glacier on Kiev Peninsula, Graham Land, which joins with Niepce Glacier and flows into Lauzanne Cove, Flandres Bay. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1954. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Louis Daguerre (1787–1851), French painter and physicist who, with J.N. Niepce, invented the daguerreotype process of photography perfected in 1839.

References

• SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Daguerre Glacier" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

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