Fahnestock glacier
| Fahnestock glacier | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| length | 50 km | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 53 ′ S , 149 ° 41 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Sulzberger Ice Shelf | |
The Fahnestock Glacier is a 50 km long glacier in Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . On the Saunders coast , it flows into the Sulzberger Ice Shelf .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2003 after Mark A. Fahnestock (* 1962) from the University of New Hampshire , who had carried out glaciological studies in theory and practice in Greenland and on the ice flows in West Antarctica since the 1980s .
Web links
- Fahestock Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fahnestock Glacier on geographic.org (English)