Lliboutry Glacier [SEP] continent
Lliboutry Glacier
Lliboutry Glacier () is a glacier flowing southwest from the Boyle Mountains of Antarctica into Bourgeois Fjord, Loubet Coast. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1983 after Louis A.F. Lliboutry, a French physicist and glaciologist who investigated the mechanical deformation of ice and the micro-meteorological properties of ice surfaces, and who also made a general study of glaciers in the Antarctic Peninsula. Lliboutry was Director of the Laboratory of Glaciology, University of Grenoble, 1958–83, and President of the International Commission
, the mountain Cerro Lliboutry (), close to the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, was named in his honour. First climbed in 2005, it is henceforth designated as "el Lliboutry" in Chilean mountaineering guidebooks. His name was also officially given in 1983 to the Lliboutry Glacier, which flows from the Boyle Mountains to the Bourgeois Fjord in the Antarctic Peninsula.
Louis Lliboutry was awarded the Légion d'honneur (Chevalier) in 1991 and the Palmes académiques (Commandeur) in 1977.
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