Talbot Glacier () is a glacier flowing into Etienne Fjord, Flandres Bay, on the west coast of Graham Land. First charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, 1897–99. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for William H.F. Talbot (1800–77), English inventor of the first practical photographic process on paper, perfected and called calotype in 1839–41.

Further reading

Jane G. Ferrigno, Alison J. Cook, Amy M. Mathie, Richard S. Williams, Jr., Charles Swithinbank, Kevin M. Foley, Adrian J. Fox, Janet W. Thomson, and Jörn Sievers, Coastal-Change and Glaciological Map of the Larsen Ice Shelf Area, Antarctica: 1940–2005, USGS

Talbot Glacier

External links

Talbot Glacier on USGS website

Talbot Glacier on AADC website

Talbot Glacier on SCAR website

Talbot Glacier on marineregions.org

Talbot Glacier distance calculator

References

Glaciers of Graham Coast

Glaciers of Danco Coast

Talbot Glacier