Alyabiev Glacier
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Alyabiev Glacier is a glacier
in Antarctica, flowing from Gluck Peak
on Alexander Island
into Boccherini Inlet
. It was named by the USSR Academy of Sciences, in 1987, after Alexander Alyabiev, the Russian composer.
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...
in Antarctica, flowing from Gluck Peak
Gluck Peak
Gluck Peak is a rock peak, 335 m, located 6.5 nautical miles south-southwest of Mount Borodin on Beethoven Peninsula, Alexander Island. First mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition , 1947-48, by Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960...
on Alexander Island
Alexander Island
Alexander Island or Alexander I Island or Alexander I Land or Alexander Land is the largest island of Antarctica, with an area of lying in the Bellingshausen Sea west of the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Marguerite Bay and George VI Sound. Alexander Island lies off...
into Boccherini Inlet
Boccherini Inlet
Boccherini Inlet is an ice-filled inlet, long and wide, which indents the south side of Beethoven Peninsula and forms the northern extremity of the Bach Ice Shelf in Alexander Island. First mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1947–48, by D...
. It was named by the USSR Academy of Sciences, in 1987, after Alexander Alyabiev, the Russian composer.