Breguet Glacier
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Breguet Glacier is a glacier
flowing into Cierva Cove
south of Gregory Glacier
, on the west coast of Graham Land
. It was shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
in 1960 for Louis Breguet and Jacques Breguet, French aircraft designers who built and flew the first helicopter to carry a man, in vertical flight.
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 into Cierva Cove
Cierva Cove
Cierva Cove is a cove lying southeast of Cape Sterneck in Hughes Bay, just south of Chavdar Peninsula along the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1950. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for Juan de la Cierva, Spanish...
south of Gregory Glacier
Gregory Glacier
Gregory Glacier is a glacier flowing into Cierva Cove north of Breguet Glacier, on the west coast of Graham Land. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for H. Franklin Gregory, American pioneer in the development and...
, on the west coast of Graham Land
Graham Land
Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...
. It was shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory and the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands...
in 1960 for Louis Breguet and Jacques Breguet, French aircraft designers who built and flew the first helicopter to carry a man, in vertical flight.