Fireman Glacier
| Fireman Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Quartermain Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 47 ′ S , 160 ° 16 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Cassidy Glacier | |
The Fireman Glacier is a glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the western part of the Quartermain Mountains it flows in a north-westerly direction to the Cassidy Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1992 after the US physicist Edward Leonard Fireman (1922-1990) from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory , who from 1979 was involved in studies of the age and composition of Antarctic meteorites and ice cores at the Byrd station .
Web links
- Fireman Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fireman Glacier on geographic.org (English)