Melville Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Melville Glacier (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Glacier
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
flowing E into Exasperation Inlet, Oscar II Coast, was surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in its lower part in November 1947 and over its whole length in October 1955; named after Herman Melville (1819-91), American author of Moby-Dick or the whale (New York, 1851), in association with names from that book in this area (APC, 1958, p.5; BA chart 3570, 29.ix.1961).
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