McCance Glacier

Location of Pernik Peninsula on Loubet Coast, Antarctic Peninsula.

McCance Glacier (66°43′S 65°55′W / 66.717°S 65.917°W / -66.717; -65.917) is a glacier flowing into Darbel Bay just west of Widdowson Glacier, on Pernik Peninsula, Loubet Coast in Graham Land. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1955-57, and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Robert A. McCance of the Dept. of Experimental Medicine, Cambridge, who gave great help in the calculation of concentrated sledging rations for British polar expeditions during the period 1938-58.

References

• SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

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

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