Malpighi Glacier

Malpighi Glacier (64°16′S 62°15′W) is a glacier 5 nautical miles (9 km) long and 1 nautical mile (2 km) wide, draining southeast from the Harvey Heights in Stribog Mountains along Basarbovo Ridge to join Mackenzie Glacier and flow into Kayak Bay at the east coast of Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It was first roughly charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under Gerlache. The glacier was photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd in 1956–57, and mapped from these photos in 1959. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Marcello Malpighi, an Italian physiologist and pioneer histologist who first demonstrated the existence of the blood capillaries.[1]

Malpighi Glacier
Location of Bradant Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region
Location of Malpighi in Antarctica
LocationPalmer Archipelago
Coordinates64°16′S 62°15′W
Length5 nmi (9 km; 6 mi)
Width1 nmi (2 km; 1 mi)
Thicknessunknown
TerminusKayak Bay
Statusunknown

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References
  1. "Malpighi Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2013-07-30.
Brabant Island seen from northeast, with Anvers Island (on the right) and Antarctic Peninsula in the background; Stribog Mountains occupy most of the central and the right, near part of the island.



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