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Wiggins Glacier
Wiggins
Glacier
is
a 10
nautical miles
long
glacier
on
Kiev Peninsula
in
Antarctica
, flowing from
Bruce Plateau
to the
west coast
of
Graham Land
just south of
Blanchard Ridge
. Charted by the
French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10
, under Charcot, and named
Glacier
du
Milieu
.
Feeling
that a more
distinctive
name was needed, the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee
in
1959
renamed the glacier for W.D.C. Wiggins, then
Deputy
Director of Overseas Surveys
.