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Miethe Glacier
Miethe
Glacier
is a
glacier
long,
flowing
northwest
into
Gerlache Strait
to
the south
of
Mount Banck
, on the
west coast
of
Graham Land
,
Antarctica
. The glacier appears on an
Argentine government
chart of
1952
. It was named by the
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
in
1960
for
Adolf Miethe
, a
German chemist
who introduced the first
panchromatic
emulsion for
photographic plates
in
1903
.
The
Kershaw Peaks
stand
west
of the main
mouth
of Miethe Glacier.