Flask glacier
| Flask glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Bruce Plateau | |
| length | 40 km | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 46 ′ S , 62 ° 47 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Scar Inlet | |
The Flask Glacier is a 40 km long glacier with a moderate gradient on the Oskar II coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows from the Bruce Plateau in an easterly direction to Scar Inlet , which it reaches between Daggoo Peak and Spouter Peak .
The lower section of the glacier was mapped and photographed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1947 . It was completely photographed during the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1955–1956), which was followed by further mapping by the FIDS in 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the glacier after the third deck officer Flask on the whaler Pequod in Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick .
Web links
- Flask Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Flask Glacier on geographic.org (English)