Fang Glacier
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| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 29 ′ S , 167 ° 6 ′ E | |
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The Fang Glacier (English for Fang Glacier ) is a glacier on the Antarctic Ross Island . It separates the old from the new crater of Mount Erebus .
The Australian geologist Frank Debenham mapped it in the course of the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . Debenham named the glacier based on the descriptive name of the Fang Ridge .
Web links
- Fang Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fang Glacier on geographic.org (English)