
Arago Glacier
(Arctowski Peninsula)
British Antarctic Territory
Location: 64° 49' 47" S 62° 22' 20" W
Arctowski Peninsula, Danco Coast, flowing S into Andvord Bay, was photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition and surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from Danco Island in 1956-57; named after Dominique-Franc ois-Jean Arago, French geodesist, who first demonstrated the application of photography to mapping in 1839, in association with the names of pioneers of photogrammetry grouped in this area.