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Vallot Glacier
Vallot
Glacier
is a
glacier
flowing
northwest
to
Laubeuf Fjord
close
south
of
Lewis Peaks
, on
Arrowsmith Peninsula
in
Graham Land
. It was mapped by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
from
surveys
and air
photos
, 1948–59, and was named by the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee
for
Joseph Vallot
, a
French
naturalist and
glaciologist
who first
measured
the surface velocity of a glacier over a long period, in
Switzerland
, 1891–99.