Noble Glacier

Noble Glacier (62°4′S 58°26′W / 62.067°S 58.433°W / -62.067; -58.433Coordinates: 62°4′S 58°26′W / 62.067°S 58.433°W / -62.067; -58.433) is a small glacier lying just north of Flagstaff Glacier on the east side of Keller Peninsula, King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Hugh M. Noble of Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), glaciologist at Admiralty Bay in 1957, who made detailed studies of the regime of Flagstaff and Stenhouse Glaciers.

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