Talbot Glacier

Talbot Glacier (65°12′S 63°14′W / 65.200°S 63.233°W / -65.200; -63.233Coordinates: 65°12′S 63°14′W / 65.200°S 63.233°W / -65.200; -63.233) is a glacier flowing into Etienne Fjord, Flandres Bay, on the west coast of Graham Land. First charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, 1897-99. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for William H.F. Talbot (1800–77), English inventor of the first practical photographic process on paper, perfected and called calotype in 1839-41.

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