Dinsmoor Glacier

Dinsmoor Glacier: Dinsmoor Glacier (64°22′S 59°59′W / 64.367°S 59.983°W / -64.367; -59.983) is a glacier flowing east from the south edge of Detroit Plateau, Graham Land, joining Edgeworth Glacier to the northeast of Mount Elliott. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) (1960-61). Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Charles Dinsmoor of Warren, PA, who invented the endless tracking "vehicle" in 1886, a forerunner of the modern continuous track and tracked vehicles. It was first manufactured commercially by Holt Manufacturing Company of Stockton, California in 1906.^[1]

Notes

^ Stewart, p. 260

References

Stewart, John, Antarctica: An Encyclopedia, McFarland, 1990, ISBN 0-8995059-7-X

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