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Jupiter Glacier
Jupiter Glacier
is a
glacier
on the east coast of
Alexander Island
,
Antarctica
, long and wide at its mouth, which flows east into
George VI Sound
to the south of
Ablation Valley
. It was first photographed from the air on November 23, 1935, by
Lincoln Ellsworth
and mapped from these photos by
W.L.G. Joerg
. It was roughly surveyed in 1936 by the
British Graham Land Expedition
, and was named for the planet
Jupiter
by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
following their surveys in 1948 and 1949.
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