Arensky Glacier
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Arensky Glacier is an Antarctic
glacier
, flowing south from Beethoven Peninsula
, Alexander Island
, into the north end of Boccherini Inlet
. The glacier was named by the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1987, after Anton Arensky
, the Russian composer.
Antarctic
The Antarctic is the region around the Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole. The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica and the ice shelves, waters and island territories in the Southern Ocean situated south of the Antarctic Convergence...
glacier
Glacier
A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...
, flowing south from Beethoven Peninsula
Beethoven Peninsula
The Beethoven Peninsula is a deeply indented, ice-covered peninsula, long in a northeast-southwest direction and wide at its broadest part, forming the southwest part of Alexander Island, which lies off the southwestern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula. The Mendelssohn Inlet, the Brahms Inlet...
, Alexander Island
Alexander Island
Alexander Island or Alexander I Island or Alexander I Land or Alexander Land is the largest island of Antarctica, with an area of lying in the Bellingshausen Sea west of the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Marguerite Bay and George VI Sound. Alexander Island lies off...
, into the north end of Boccherini Inlet
Boccherini Inlet
Boccherini Inlet is an ice-filled inlet, long and wide, which indents the south side of Beethoven Peninsula and forms the northern extremity of the Bach Ice Shelf in Alexander Island. First mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1947–48, by D...
. The glacier was named by the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1987, after Anton Arensky
Anton Arensky
Anton Stepanovich Arensky -Biography:Arensky was born in Novgorod, Russia. He was musically precocious and had composed a number of songs and piano pieces by the age of nine...
, the Russian composer.