Lind Glacier [SEP] continent
Lind Glacier
Lind Glacier () is a glacier flowing west from Alencar Peak into the southern part of Collins Bay, on the west coast of Kiev Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It was first charted by the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, 1908–10, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 for James Lind, the Scottish "founder of modern naval hygiene," who was the first to publish a convincing account of experimental work establishing the dietary cause and cure of
The first ascent of the glacier was by Fred Beckey, Dave Lind, and Robert Mulhall in July 1945.
Below , the glacier spreads into a broad sheet with five separate tongues of ice extending out to termini between large moraines. On its easternmost tongue, it ends at a glacial tarn, or small ice-choked lake above High Camp.
The glacier has decreased in surface area by 47% between 1904 and 2006.
In 1901, when Mount Adams was being mapped and its glaciers named by Harry Fielding