Fleming Glacier

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Fleming Glacier
location Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
length 40 km
Coordinates 69 ° 28 ′  S , 66 ° 34 ′  W Coordinates: 69 ° 28 ′  S , 66 ° 34 ′  W
Fleming Glacier (Antarctic Peninsula)
Fleming Glacier
drainage Forster Piedmont Glacier

The Fleming Glacier is a wide and about 40 km long glacier on the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows in a west-north-westerly direction and flows into the Forster-Piedmont Glacier east of the Wordie Ice Shelf .

It was mapped during the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill and photographed on September 29, 1940 during a flyover by participants in the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the glacier in 1947 after William Launcelot Scott Fleming (1906-1990), Dean of Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge and participant in the British Graham Land Expedition.

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