Fleming Glacier
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location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
length | 40 km | |
Coordinates | 69 ° 28 ′ S , 66 ° 34 ′ W | |
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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.
Web links
- Fleming Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fleming Glacier on geographic.org (English)