Sayce Glacier

Sayce Glacier (65°5′S 62°59′W / 65.083°S 62.983°W / -65.083; -62.983Coordinates: 65°5′S 62°59′W / 65.083°S 62.983°W / -65.083; -62.983) is a glacier flowing into Flandres Bay immediately north of Pelletan Point, on the west coast of Graham Land. Charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, 1897-99. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for B.J. Sayce (1839–1895), English photographer who, with W.B. Bolton, invented the collodion emulsion process of dry plate photography, which displaced wet collodion in 1864.


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