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Melville Glacier

glacier in Antarctica
Landform glacier Q6813872
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Melville Glacier

Summary

Melville Glacier is a glacier[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of glacier entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Melville Glacier is located in Antarctic Treaty area[3].
  • Melville Glacier's continent is recorded as Antarctica[4].
  • Melville Glacier's instance of is recorded as glacier[5].
  • Herman Melville is named after Melville Glacier[6].
  • Melville Glacier's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': -65.4667, 'lon': -62.1667}[7].
  • Melville Glacier's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': -65.47795, 'lon': -62.38289}[8].
  • Melville Glacier's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0ds65fr[9].
  • Melville Glacier's GNIS Antarctica ID is recorded as 9841[10].
  • Melville Glacier's GeoNames ID is recorded as 6637964[11].
  • Melville Glacier's SCAR Composite Gazetteer place ID is recorded as 9413[12].
  • Melville Glacier's GLIMS ID is recorded as G297326E65499S[13].

Why It Matters

Melville Glacier ranks in the top 7% of glacier entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14]

Related Entities

Herman Melville

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4w ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Continent → Antarctica
    Named after → —
    Instance of → —
    Named after → Herman Melville
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ [[Property:P131]]: [[Q10372207]], fix redirect [[Q21590062]] → [[Q10372207]] ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/CB/bf164d4e5ee1|details]])"
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