Field glacier
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 9 ′ S , 66 ° 21 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Lallemand Fjord | |
The Field Glacier is a glacier on the Loubet Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows south of Salmon Cove in a westerly direction to Lallemand Fjord .
Aerial photographs of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE, 1956–1957) were used to map it. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on September 23, 1960 after the American glaciologist and geodesist William Bradhurst Osgood Field (1904-1994) of the American Geographical Society .
Web links
- Field Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Field Glacier on geographic.org (English)