Fleece glacier
| Fleece glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 54 ′ S , 63 ° 6 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Leppard Glacier | |
The Fleece Glacier is a glacier on the Oskar II coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows 2.5 km east of Moider Peak into the northern flank of the Leppard Glacier .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the glacier in 1976 after the smut fleece on the whaler Pequod in Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick .
Web links
- Fleece Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fleece Glacier on geographic.org (English)