Flask Glacier (65°47′S 62°25′W / 65.783°S 62.417°W), is a gently-sloping glacier, 25 nautical miles (46 km; 29 mi) long, flowing east from Bruce Plateau to enter Scar Inlet between Daggoo Peak and Spouter Peak in Graham Land, Antarctica. The lower reaches of this glacier were surveyed and photographed by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1947. The entire glacier was photographed by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in 1955–56, and mapped by the FIDS in 1957. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee after the third mate on the Pequod in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; or, The White Whale.[1][2]
| Flask Glacier | |
|---|---|
 Location of Oscar II Coast on Antarctic Peninsula | |
  Location of Flask Glacier in Antarctica | |
| Location | Graham Land |
| Coordinates | 65°47′S 62°25′W / 65.783°S 62.417°W |
| Length | 25 nautical miles (46 km; 29 mi) |
| Thickness | unknown |
| Terminus | Scar Inlet |
| Status | unknown |
Tributary glaciers
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editFurther reading
edit- T. A. Scambos, J. A. Bohlander, C. A. Shuman, P. Skvarca, 'https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2004GL020670 Archived 2021-10-15 at the Wayback Machine Glacier acceleration and thinning after ice shelf collapse in the Larsen B embayment, Antarctica], The Cryosphere, Volume 31, Issue 18, 22 September 2004 https://doi.org/10.1029/2004GL020670
- Farinotti, Daniel, Corr, Hugh, Gudmundsson, G. Hilmar, The ice thickness distribution of Flask Glacier, Antarctic Peninsula, determined by combining radio-echo soundings, surface velocity data and flow modelling, Annals of Glaciology / 54, PP 18 - 24 https://doi.org/10.3189/2013AoG63A603
- Douglas Fox, Scientists Trek to Collapsing Glaciers to Assess Antarctica’s Meltdown and Sea-Level Rise, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
External links
edit- Flask Glacier on USGS website
- Flask Glacier on AADC website
- Flask Glacier on SCAR website
References
edit- ^ "Flask Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2012-03-27.
- ^ "Flask Glacier". Gna-GeographicNamesOfTheAntarctic1stEdition1981_djvu. p. 672. Retrieved 2012-03-27.
This article incorporates public domain material from "Flask Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
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