Snellius Glacier (, ) is the glacier extending 7 km in west–east direction and 3 km in south–north direction on the north coast of

Elephant Island Elephant Island is an ice-covered, mountainous island off the coast of Antarctica in the outer reaches of the South Shetland Islands, in the Southern Ocean. The island is situated north-northeast of the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, west-so ...

in the

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draining the north slopes of

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and flowing northwards into

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between Eratosthenes Point and Ronalds Point. The area was visited by early 19th century

sealers Sealer may refer either to a person or ship engaged in seal hunting, or to a sealant; associated terms include: Seal hunting * Sealer Hill, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica * Sealers' Oven, bread oven of mud and stone built by sealers around 1800 ...

.A. Gurney. ''Below the Convergence: Voyages Toward Antarctica, 1699-1839.'' New York: Penguin Books, 1998. 315 pp. The feature is named after

Willebrord Snellius Willebrord Snellius (born Willebrord Snel van Royen) (13 June 158030 October 1626) was a Dutch astronomer and mathematician, commonly known as Snell. His name is usually associated with the law of refraction of light known as Snell's law. The ...

(Willebrord Snel van Royen, 1580–1626), a Dutch astronomer and mathematician who was the first to survey distances by

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; in association with other names in the area deriving from the early development or use of

geodetic Geodesy or geodetics is the science of measuring and representing the geometry, gravity, and spatial orientation of the Earth in temporally varying 3D. It is called planetary geodesy when studying other astronomical bodies, such as planets ...

instruments and methods.

Location

Snellius Glacier is centred at .Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission British mapping of the area in 1822,1972 and 2009.

Maps

from the exploration of the sloop Dove in the years 1821 and 1822 by George Powell Commander of the same. Scale ca. 1:200000. London: Laurie, 1822
Elephant Island: From a survey by the Joint Services Expedition, December 1970.
Scale 1:132000 topographic map. Royal Geographical Society (UK), 1972
British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 61 54. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1972
South Shetland Islands: Elephant, Clarence and Gibbs Islands.
Scale 1:220000 topographic map. UK Antarctic Place-names Committee, 2009
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated

Notes

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

Antarctic Place-names Commission The Antarctic Place-names Commission was established by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute in 1994, and since 2001 has been a body affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Bulgaria), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria. The Commis ...

. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

Snellius Glacier.
Adjusted Copernix satellite image Glaciers of the South Shetland Islands Elephant Island Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{ElephantIsland-geo-stub