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Antarctica ID: | 3838 |
Name: | Dibble Glacier |
Class: | Glacier |
Latitude: | -66.2833333 |
Longitude: | 134.6 |
Description: | A prominent channel glacier flowing from the continental ice and terminating in a prominent tongue at the E side of Davis Bay. Delineated from air photos taken by U.S. Navy (USN) Operation Highjump (1946-47), and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Jonas Dibble, ship's carpenter on the sloop Peacock of the U.S. Exploring Expedition (USEE) (1838-42) under Wilkes. Dibble is credited with leaving his sick bed and working 24 hours without relief with other carpenters to repair a broken rudder on the Peacock, when the ship was partially crushed in an ice bay in 15119E and forced to retire northward. |
BGN: | 01-JAN-55 |
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