Flask Glacier

Flask Glacier (65°47′S 62°25′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
LocationGraham Land
Coordinates65°47′S 62°25′W
Length25 nautical miles (46 km; 29 mi)
Thicknessunknown
TerminusScar Inlet
Statusunknown

Tributary glaciers

See also

Further reading
• T. A. Scambos, J. A. Bohlander, C. A. Shuman, P. Skvarca, 'https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2004GL020670 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

References
  1. "Flask Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-03-27.
  2. "Flask Glacier". Gna-GeographicNamesOfTheAntarctic1stEdition1981_djvu. p. 672. Retrieved 2012-03-27.

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