Mapple Glacier

Mapple Glacier (65°25′S 62°15′W / 65.417°S 62.25°W / -65.417; -62.25) is a narrow glacier 15 nautical miles (28 km) long, flowing eastward into the southern arm of Exasperation Inlet on the east side of Graham Land. It lies 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) north of Melville Glacier and is separated from it by a line of small peaks. Surveyed by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1961. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Father Mapple, the whalemen's Nantucket priest in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.

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

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