Mouillard Glacier
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Mouillard Glacier is a 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 into the southeast corner of Brialmont Cove
Brialmont Cove
Brialmont Cove is a cove in Hughes Bay, lying between Charles Point and Spring Point along the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctica. It was charted in 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, who named it for Lieutenant-General Brialmont, a member of the Belgica Commission....

, 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...

. Photographed by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) in 1956-57, and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Louis P. Mouillard (1834–1897), French pioneer of gliding flight.
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