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Glacier in Antarctica

Nobile Glacier (64°32′S 61°28′W / 64.533°S 61.467°W / -64.533; -61.467) is a glacier flowing into the southeast part of Recess Cove, Charlotte Bay, on the west coast of Graham Land. Charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, 1897–99. it was photographed from the air by FIDASE and surveyed from the ground by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from Portal Point, 1956–58.

Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Umberto Nobile, Italian designer of the rigid airships Norge and respectively. Glacier is located in the closest part of Antarctica to South America.

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v t e Glaciers in the Antarctic
Alphabetic	List of glaciers in the Antarctic: A–H List of glaciers in the Antarctic: I–Z
By territory	Adélie Land Bouvet Island Coats Land Ellsworth Land Enderby Land Graham Land Heard Island and McDonald Islands James Ross Island and Graham Land Kaiser Wilhelm II Land Kemp Land Mac. Robertson Land Marie Byrd Land Oates Land Palmer Archipelago and Graham Land Palmer Land Princess Elizabeth Land Queen Elizabeth Land Queen Mary Land Queen Maud Land Ross Dependency South Georgia South Shetland Islands South Orkney Islands Trinity Peninsula and Graham Land Victoria Land Wilkes Land
Miscellaneous	List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands List of Antarctic ice rises List of Antarctic ice shelves List of Antarctic ice streams List of glaciers List of subantarctic glaciers

v t e Glaciers of Graham Land

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