Feature Name (see definition): Dibble Glacier

Feature Class (see definition): Glacier

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 3838

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 66° 17' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 134° 36' 00" E

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -66.2833333

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): 134.6

Elevation (see definition): No data

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1955

Description (see definition): A prominent channel glacier flowing from the continental ice and terminating in a prominent tongue at the E side of Davis Bay. Delineated from air photos taken by U.S. Navy (USN) Operation Highjump (1946-47), and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Jonas Dibble, ship's carpenter on the sloop Peacock of the U.S. Exploring Expedition (USEE) (1838-42) under Wilkes. Dibble is credited with leaving his sick bed and working 24 hours without relief with other carpenters to repair a broken rudder on the Peacock, when the ship was partially crushed in an ice bay in 15119E and forced to retire northward.

Date Created (see definition): No data

Date Edited (see definition): No data