Fisher Glacier
| Fisher Glacier | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| length | 160 km | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 15 ′ S , 66 ° 0 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Lambert Glacier | |
The Fisher Glacier is a 160 km long glacier in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It flows in an easterly direction along the northern flanks of Mount Menzies and Mount Rubin to flow east of Mount Stinear into the main stream of the Lambert Glacier .
He was spotted in 1957 during an overflight as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions under the direction of Keith Benson Mather (1922-2003). The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after Norman Henry Fisher (1909-2007), senior geologist at the Bureau of Mineral Resources of the Australian Department of National Development .
Web links
- Fisher Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fisher Glacier on geographic.org (English)