Fastook glacier
| Fastook glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Cook Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 30 km | |
| width | Max. 8 kilometers | |
| Coordinates | 79 ° 2 ′ S , 156 ° 45 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Mulock glacier | |
The Fastook Glacier is a 30 km long and 8 km wide glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It flows from the north side of the Longhurst Plateau in the Cook Mountains in a northerly direction between the Butcher Ridge and the Finger Ridges to the Mulock Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names renamed it in 2001 after the computer scientist James L. Fastook (* 1949) from the University of Maine , who from 1978 over a period of about 20 years in the investigations of the United States Antarctic Program to Antarctic ice streams and ice shelves involved was.
Web links
- Fastook Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fastook Glacier on geographic.org (English)