Lister Glacier (Palmer Archipelago)

Lister Glacier (64°5′S 62°19′W) is a glacier 5 nautical miles (9 km) long and 1 nautical mile (2 km) wide, draining the northeast slopes of Stribog Mountains and flowing into Bouquet Bay just south of Duclaux Point on the northeast side of Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica.

Lister Glacier
Location of Bradant Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region
Location of Lister in Antarctica
Location	Palmer Archipelago
Coordinates	64°5′S 62°19′W
Length	5 nmi (9 km; 6 mi)
Width	1 nmi (2 km; 1 mi)
Thickness	unknown
Terminus	Bouquet Bay
Status	unknown

The glacier was shown on an Argentine government chart in 1953, but not named. It was photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd in 1956–57, and mapped from these photos in 1959. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, an English surgeon who was the founder of antiseptic surgery.[1]

See also

• List of glaciers in the Antarctic
• Glaciology

Maps

• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
• British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1980.
• Brabant Island to Argentine Islands. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008.

Further reading

• Geological Survey (U.S.), Coastal-change and Glaciological Map of the Trinity Peninsula Area and South Shetland Islands, P 28

External links

• Lister Glacier on USGS website
• Lister Glacier on SCAR website
• Lister Glacier Copernix satellite image

References

1. "Lister Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2013-06-21.

Brabant Island seen from northeast, with Anvers Island (on the right) and Antarctic Peninsula in the background.