Miethe Glacier

Miethe Glacier

Miethe Glacier (64°56′S 63°6′W / 64.933°S 63.1°W / -64.933; -63.1) is a glacier 3 miles long, flowing northwest into Gerlache Strait to the south of Mount Banck, on the west coast of Graham Land. The glacier appears on an Argentine government chart of 1952. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Adolf Miethe (1862–1927), German chemist who introduced the first panchromatic emulsion for photographic plates in 1903.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Miethe Glacier" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).