Farbo glacier
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 Topographic map with the Land and Farbo glaciers (bottom center) |
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 50 ′ S , 141 ° 45 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Land glacier | |
The Farbo Glacier is a glacier in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . It flows in a northeasterly direction and flows into the Land Glacier 13 km west of Mount McCoy on the Ruppert Coast .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from the years 1959 to 1965. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after Richard Riley Farbo (* 1933), equipment operator in the US Navy Wintered three campaigns of Operation Deep Freeze in 1959 and 1965 at McMurdo Station and 1969 at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station .
Web links
- Farbo Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Farbo Glacier on geographic.org (English)