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Revision as of 11:21, 13 July 2011 by Grutness (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)75°18′S 19°0′W / 75.300°S 19.000°W / -75.300; -19.000 Stancomb-Wills Glacier is a large glacier that debouches into eastern Weddell Sea southward of Lyddan Island. The glacier was discovered in the course of the U.S. Navy LC-130 plane flight over the coast on November 5, 1967, and was plotted by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from photographs obtained at that time. The name was applied by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1969.
The Stancomb-Wills Glacier Tongue (75°0′S 22°0′W / 75.000°S 22.000°W / -75.000; -22.000) is the extensive seaward projection of the Stancomb-Wills Glacier into the eastern Weddell Sea. The cliffed front of this feature was discovered in January 1915 by a British expedition led by Shackleton. He named it "Stancomb-Wills Promontory," after Dame Janet Stancomb-Wills, one of the principal donors of the expedition. In 1969, US-ACAN amended the name to "Stancomb-Wills Glacier Tongue". This followed the U.S. Navy flight on which the glacier was discovered and the relationship with the glacier tongue was first observed.
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This article incorporates public domain material from "Stancomb-Wills Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. 
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