Starbuck Glacier

Starbuck Glacier (65°38′S 62°9′W) is a glacier 15 nautical miles (28 km) long, flowing east along the south side of Taridin Ridge and Padesh Ridge, and entering Scar Inlet immediately north of Mount Queequeg, on the east coast of Graham Land. Surveyed and partially photographed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1947. The entire glacier was photographed by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) in 1955–56, and mapped from these photos by the FIDS in 1957. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after the first mate on the Pequod in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.

Location of Oscar II Coast on Antarctic Peninsula.

Further reading
• Farinotti, D., King, E., Albrecht, A., Huss, M., & Gudmundsson, G. (2014), The bedrock topography of Starbuck Glacier, Antarctic Peninsula, as determined by radio-echo soundings and flow modeling, Annals of Glaciology, 55(67), 22-28. doi:10.3189/2014AoG67A025
• Kristaps Lamsters, Janis Karu, Agnis Recs, Davids Berzins, Detailed subglacial topography and drumlins at the marginal zone of Múlajokull outlet glacier, central Iceland: Evidence from low frequency GPR data, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Latvia, Rainis Boulevard 19, LV-1586, Rıga, Latvia
• Scambos, T.A. and Berthier, E. and Haran, T. and Shuman, C.A. and Cook, A.J. and Ligtenberg, S. and Bohlander, J. (2014), Detailed ice loss pattern in the northern Antarctic Peninsula : widespread decline driven by ice front retreats, The cryosphere., 8 (6). pp. 2135-2145 https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-8-2135-2014
• ANDREW FREEDMAN, Scientists find large Antarctic ice shelves closer to collapse than they thought, MAY 19, 2015

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Starbuck Glacier". (content from the Geographic Names Information System) 



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